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Old February 16th 07, 11:01 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bob Noel
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Default Iowa Aviation Weather...en Espanol

In article m,
C J Campbell wrote:

How many citizens can only read/write Spanish?


I am disturbed by the apparent assumption that any Spanish speaker must be an
illegal alien.


Are you suggesting that the question implied any assumptions?

The vast majority of Spanish speakers in the US are citizens.
A lot of them are descended from people who were living in what is now the
USA long before the Mayflower ever got here. It really is ignorant not to
know that.


Spanish, like English, is an imported language.

I'm, in part, a descendent of people living here way before Spanish or English
arrived.

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