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Re: Trilingual Britain.
I agree that immigrants should learn English, but there is another side to this "speak English" thing.
My missus has lived here over 20 years and speaks very good English (especially when she's telling me which jobs she wants me to do around the house).
The other week she was walking along the street talking to her mate - another Peruvian who has lived here over 30 years and also speaks excellent English. Because they were talking to each other, they were conversing in their first language - Spanish - when a chav rushed up and shouted "speak f*****g English." When my wife replied to him in distinctly Anglo-Saxon vernacular, he went on, "you're in f*****g England, speak f*****g English!" Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), I wasn't there at the time or I might well have been moved to express my feelings towards him. so, you see, you can take this "when in England, speak English" lark a bit too far at times!
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