quotes about Bilingualism
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Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.
-- Pierre TrudeauSource : "Problems of Journalism". Book by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1966.
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Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
-- S. I. Hayakawa -
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
-- Stephen HarperSource : Debates (Hansard) No.155 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. May 16, 2007.
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
-- Roman JakobsonSource : Roman Jakobson (1971). “Selected Writings: Word and Language”, p.561, Walter de Gruyter
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