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Europe
Officials call for mandatory Norwegian
2007-02-07
That's the AP headline. Must be a newly hired editor.
Norway's Progress Party is pushing a platform that would require immigrants to learn the Norwegian language. Carl I. Hagen, vice-president of Norway's parliament, said immigrants who fail to learn Norweigian ...
[sic. Definitely a newbie editor, no experienced editor would let such an egregious spelling slip through.]
... would be excluded from social support benefits, Aftenposten reported. Hagen said the party wants to reduce the number of children who enter the public school system without speaking Norwegian. "We will no longer accept the development of ghettos and that children are born in Norway and cannot speak Norwegian. It is a parental responsibility," Hagen said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Hear, hear, Grunter. Front runner for snark o' the week material.

*golf claps*
Posted by: BA   2007-02-07 11:32  

#5  LOL.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-02-07 10:55  

#4  Second that hahahahahahahah.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-02-07 09:06  

#3  Hahahahahahahaha Grunter!
Posted by: Shipman   2007-02-07 08:40  

#2  In Denmark do "Officials call for mandatory Danish"? Also, do they get a coffee with it?
Posted by: Parabellum   2007-02-07 05:49  

#1  "Oh why can't Norwegians teach their children how to speak?
The English learn their Urdu and the Greeks are taught their Greek"
Posted by: Grunter   2007-02-07 00:36  

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