Comments on: OK for private school to have English-only rule

By: Fox2!

Fox2! — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:54:43 +0000

Several years ago, there was a mental health department in eastern Oregon looking for a Klingonese translator. Just in case.

Don’t know if the KLI was able to help them.

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:27:52 +0000

The rule that many lawyers want is for all events, behaviors, phenoms to be actionable. It’s economic. The more things that can be put in to the “injury” category, the more potential customers. The more customers you have, the more business. The more business you have, the more profit you are capable of securing. Of course, the only exclusion to this “rule” is that these lawyers operate outside of its area of enforcement and are hence, mostly immune to it.

By: OBQuiet

OBQuiet — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:31:26 +0000

Wasn’t there a report here recently about a casino being sued when some employee made lewd comments about a patron in Spanish?

I guess the rule that lawyers want is for all employers be required to have translators on hand for any language that any employee might wish to speak.

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:57:52 +0000

Deoxy, let’s not discount our friends at the ACLU; a most ardent wielder of the hostile environment sword.

This is akin to a claim that exclusively teaching Catholicism at a Catholic school is potentially abusive.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:43:21 +0000

GoogleCached version is here and a search on the key phrases will turn up other web versions (with or without fair-use problems).

By: John Rohan

John Rohan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:25 +0000

Link isn’t working.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:23:43 +0000

“hostile environment” is the vehicle by which the feds have pushed themselves into every part of private life except the actual home (I bet they’re working on that).

The concept is an abomination even WITHOUT such abuses.