English as the National Language of the USA?

English is not the official language of the United States of America, despite wide-spread belief to the contrary. The 56 signers of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 were all of British ancestry and for them, all native speakers of English, declaring English to be the country\u27s national language would have seemed unnecessary. From a 1790 census of some 4 million inhabitants the country\u27s population has soared to over 265 million in 1996, a number that includes millions of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. Immigration, legal and illegal, continues to bring to the USA large numbers of people whose native language is not English. The cost of providing remedial and other services for immigrants has evoked a rise in »nativism«, such that many of the country\u27s 50 states have passed legislation mandating English as the official language and now legislation is before the U. S. Congress to declare English as the required language for all government transactions. The author supports such legislation in order to clarify ambiguous situations but he also supports bilingual education for a limited period so as to provide a transition for immigrant children from their native language to English

English as the National Language of the USA?

English is not the official language of the United States of America, despite wide-spread belief to the contrary. The 56 signers of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 were all of British ancestry and for them, all native speakers of English, declaring English to be the country\u27s national language would have seemed unnecessary. From a 1790 census of some 4 million inhabitants the country\u27s population has soared to over 265 million in 1996, a number that includes millions of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. Immigration, legal and illegal, continues to bring to the USA large numbers of people whose native language is not English. The cost of providing remedial and other services for immigrants has evoked a rise in »nativism«, such that many of the country\u27s 50 states have passed legislation mandating English as the official language and now legislation is before the U. S. Congress to declare English as the required language for all government transactions. The author supports such legislation in order to clarify ambiguous situations but he also supports bilingual education for a limited period so as to provide a transition for immigrant children from their native language to English

Rječnik Jugoslavenske Akademije: ocjena

Ocjenjujući Akademijin Rječnik autor navodi neke glavne njegove osobine i smatra da bi svezak 97, koji je uredio Ljudevit Jonke, trebalo prevesti na strane jezike kako bi učenjaci koji ne poznaju hrvatski saznali o principima sastavljanja ovog djela.· Dalje se osvjetljuje Daničićev urednički zadatak s citatima iz spisa engleskog leksikografa 18. stoljeća dr Johnsona i R. C. Trencha, te se Daničića uspoređuje s američkim leksikografom Websterom i urednikom Oxfordskog engleskog rječnika Murrayem. Autor navodi Jagićevu kritiku uskoći Daničićeve koncepcije Rječnika, ali nalazi i opravdanja za Daničića zbog isključenja kajkavskog dijalekta iz Rječnika uzevši u obzir ondašnje viđenje kajkavskog dijalekta i neslaganje među filolozima o pripadnosti kajkavskog dijalekta slovenskoj ili hrvatskoj sferi. A. Rj. može poslužiti kao izvor podataka povjesničarima, lingvistima, folkloristima i kulturolozima. Na primjerima natuknica \u27Kulin\u27, \u27ban\u27, \u27forinta\u27, \u27Daničić\u27, autor praktično pokazuje kako Rječnik, iako nije enciklopedijski, daje vrijedne podatke za početak bilo kakva istraživanja. Autor nalazi da je ovo jedinstveno leksikografsko djelo u slavenskom svijetu

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

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