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HAVE YOUR SAY

SHOULD ALL SIGNS IN BRITAIN BE IN ENGLISH?

A road sign in Cheshire written in Polish

Saturday December 8,2007

Comment Speech Bubble Have your say(64)

SO much information is being translated for migrants that they no longer need to learn to speak English, a minister finally admitted yesterday.

Now town halls have been ordered to stop automatically painting foreign languages and to think twice before translating any documents.

The move comes after the Daily Express revealed that experts fear the annual translation bill to the taxpayer could be as high as £500 million.

So do you think signs should only be printed in English? Should immigrants make an effort to learn the language of our country? Are the Government wasting our money?

SHOULD ALL SIGNS IN BRITAIN BE IN ENGLISH?

28.12.07, 7:02pm

The simple answer is yes - and I would include Welsh as well, apart from points of entry into the UK. As far as other non British languages are concerned, there is no place for them. Learn English if you live in the British Isles. In Spain, even in places where there is a large permanent expat population, there are no road signs in English!

• Posted by: Francisharmony • Report Comment

ALL SIGNS IN ENGLISH

22.12.07, 7:43pm

Well, if nothing else, those road signs in Polish prove beyond doubt that there are far too many Poles in this country.

• Posted by: JaneRoberts • Report Comment

WATCH OUT THERE JOCK

20.12.07, 6:03pm

making sensable points will get you nowhere here. especially being scottish. the nationalists here do not like that one bit.

they do like making a big deal out of a non-issue though... love it. almost as much as they love hating.

• Posted by: Vince • Report Comment

SHOULD ALL SIGNS IN BRITAIN BE IN ENGLISH?

20.12.07, 5:15pm

No

Wales and Scotland have their own languages and which languages are used should be the decision of the local authority and reflect the make up of the local popualtion,but English SHOULD always be one of the languages ,since it is recoginised universally,and the language of MOST UK Citizens .
It does not make sense to exclude a langauge of a large ethnic population simply because the English dont understand it!Its not for your benefit.
A bit less arrogance England and maybe relations might improve,

• Posted by: JOCKINTHEBOX • Report Comment

ENGLAND ENGLISH

20.12.07, 3:56pm

What the bloo d y hell is going on here? I work all over the world and everywhere any negotiations are being carried on between two different language speakers then it is in English.

All nations use English as the default language when they deal with any other national trading partner!
English is the language of Science, Aviation, Maritime, it is the worlds preferred communication language. Here in its birthplace our political traitors have betrayed our nation and all we stand for.

B A S T A R DS

• Posted by: anglosaxon1 • Report Comment

NO THEY SHOULDN'T

20.12.07, 12:30pm

They should be in the language of the people from Pakistan and Banglasesh. After all these people are having 5 children on average compared to the indigenous Britions' 1.2 so it's only a matter of time before they become the majority.

So unless a certain party gets in power, then why not save ourselves some time and change the roadsigns now?

• Posted by: CharlesTree • Report Comment