I followed you right up to your conclusion then you lost me. The actions of Pelosi and Reid in no way resemble your final example.
Yes, immersion is great, my mother confirmed this often enough, however, my grandfather on the other side who spoke a deep Scottish brogue, which technically I believe is English, remained terminally incomprehensible.
Let’s not become overwrought over the language thing. Language is too much fun to go messing it up with emotional politics. As far as government printing things in other languages, we’ve always done that and hopefully will continue. Look, is it such a problem to rip off and toss the portions of the user’s manual that don’t apply to you? Better yet, you can use them to see how other people say things. Get ahold by matching up the clip art like Champollion’s cartouches.
