At 07:25 PM 5/22/2006, Stahlke, Herbert F.W. wrote: re; Section 4.E 
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to which DD had pointed out; "Nota 
Bene; it does not require the printing of ballots in the other 
languages, nor the use of interpreters.
>There are other laws that guarantee those rights, but I don't know 
>where to find them.  However, numerous state laws limiting those 
>rights have been struck down by state and Federal courts.  One of 
>the more interesting such cases was in Alaska a few years ago when 
>the state banned the use of any language but English in conducting 
>government business at any level in the state.  A Yupik village went 
>to court because members of their town council were monolingual 
>Yupik speakers.  The court shot the law down in short order.

DD: Interesting the laws are. Was it a federal or a state court, I 
wonder. Who knows if it is the law of the land, until it finds its 
way to the Supremes. If they deign to consider it. Our interest, 
though, is to assist the learning and teaching of English Grammar, 
but these peripheral issues impact on us. I wonder what the grammar 
of Yupik is like. How do you teach our English grammar to an 
agglutinating language speaker? Thanks for the info, DD 

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