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Amen for Major Barbara, from Bro. Marshburn

On the FFA, Farming, Fine Arts, and Foreign Language
Comments re article 54007 Foreign language is for FFA kids too by Barbara Armitage Charles Marshburn writes:
That Mark Twain hit the nail right on the head! How ya going to keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paris? Let the mules wear the blinders! - Charles Marshburn
Thanks, Charles Marshburn, for that pithy insight - As per my Quaker nature, I'm staying out of this.



I don't care what other language anyone speaks, so long as they learn to properly mumble the Adairese of the Great Wooded South. The Huguenots of Gadberry can speak all the French they want at home; the Amish at Gradyville can speak German to their hearts content, and the Hispanics can speak Hispanics to their hearts content. It is invenereal to me, to paraphrase what I think Dr. Steve put on one of his 'Sermons on the Wall.' And, on the subject of cats and shop cats - Does anybody have one which understands more than one human language? - also sprachen ed


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