• This is bound to upset a few people...

    A sign of things to come? English road gets directions in Polish

    Thursday February 15, 11:52 AM
    LONDON (AFP) - A British local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of drivers from the eastern European country. Full story here.
    Apparently the anti 'politically correct' are up in arms about this. Now normally, I'm the first to campaign against this sort of thing - I'm certainly against signs in Spanish being put up all over New York.
    But the fact is, a large number of the Spanish speaking immigrants to America are illegal. To pander to their needs by supplying signs in their native language is ridiculous. REAL immigrants (like myself) have to prove a working knowledge of English (I just scraped through.) However, like immigration and even criminal laws, this is another American law that illegal immigrants seem to think doesn't apply to them.
    It's a completely different story in England.
    We're part of the European Union. Polish, Dutch, Spanish... Whatever EU nation you're from, you have FULL rights to live and work in England. Britain is no longer a truly sovriegn nation. We're part of something bigger - Europe.
    If the Polish immigrants number sufficently to make Polish signs a requirement - they should be erected. It's NO DIFFERENT to there being signs in English all across France, to cater to the growing number of Brits who've had enough of England and decided to head abroad.

1 comments:

  1. Unknown says:
    12:02 AM

    Europe is still quite a few generations off from having a united language. Until then posting signs in other languages only creates more red tape and a larger more obese government. It's not just road signs, Court documents, government forms and even schools. The problem with schools? A polish immigrant and English student won't get the same schooling or the same education, you have effectively created and "Us vs Them." From now on it will always be a Polish neighborhood.

    Can you read Polish? How will you drive in that part of the country? If they got bilingual signs up how will the French get around? German tourists? They're EU citizens too.

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