[LINK] New topic raised on accessibility: language

Mark Burnard mark.burnard@ce.com.au
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:06:56 +1100


Like I saw once on a young red-neck's T-shirt in Brisbane's Queen Street
mall,

"Speak English or Die".

It grabbed me as at the time I was teaching ESL at Wollongong Uni. Oh for
such a T-shirt in the classroom!

Best regards,

Mark Burnard
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-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:lannet@lannet.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 November 2000 8:27
To: Jan Whitaker
Cc: link@www.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] New topic raised on accessibility: language


Legislate that English only is acceptable?

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Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> Also, what will governments have to do to satisfy these requirements as 
> they continue to push for online service delivery and have multilingual 
> populations?