Re: Why Key Escrow (GAK) is So Bad

[goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)]

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>At 10:22 9/7/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
>>(Ironically, I just heard about a case in Texas where a judge ordered a
>>mother to stop speaking in Spanish to her child at home, calling it "child
>>abuse." The implications of this are self-evident.)
>
>You have the facts slightly wrong. The order was no to stop talking Spanish
>and to use English but only to Not use Spanish EXCLUSIVELY but to also use
>English (so as to allow the Child to Grow up in a Bilingual Environment).
>Waiting until the child was old enough to go to school would put the Child
>at a disadvantage in learning English since the window of Chance for
>Language Skill Pickup would have closed.

(drifting wildly off topic...)

Consider me exhibit A that speaking only German in the home until age 17
does not diminish ones language skills. In fact, (drifting...) it was only
until I began speaking English to the exclusion of German that my language
skills began to decline.


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