{"id":2700,"date":"2009-04-02T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2009-04-02T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T22:50:06","slug":"georgia-and-english-only-drivers-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/04\/02\/georgia-and-english-only-drivers-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia and English-Only Driver’s Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Georgia legislature, as usual, is focuing on the important stuff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Georgia would require that new drivers take a written license test in English under a bill being considered by state lawmakers, and the proposal has some employers and immigrant advocates worried it would keep people unfamiliar with the language from being able to work.<\/p>\n

The measure is the latest in a series of English-only legislation around the country, but Georgia is believed to be the only state that would have a law requiring that drivers take the written test in English without a translator or other aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would just like to point out that when I moved to Georgia as a teenager – a teenager with a fairly solid grasp of the English language – I had a pretty hard time understanding what in the hell half the people were saying.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 More than once, I needed a translator to understand the teachers – apparently “Green Witch” is that place in England where they tell the time, and “licks” are what the principle does to you when you’re sent to the office.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not even going to touch syntax.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and as to the importance of the driving test itself?\u00c2\u00a0 This is how mine went:<\/p>\n

Tester: “Hey, it says here you live at 193 Little Joe Court [No, really.].\u00c2\u00a0 Do you know Alex?”<\/p>\n

Me: “Yeah, he lives across the street.\u00c2\u00a0 Cool guy.”<\/p>\n

Tester: “Yeah, cool guy.\u00c2\u00a0 Pull around the side and park the car.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Passed on the spot.\u00c2\u00a0 So I suggest Georgia focus less on trying to compete with South Carolina for The Most Militantly Ignorant State in the Nation Award and more on fundamental needs like, oh, not running out of water because no one can think more than a month or two ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Georgia legislature, as usual, is focuing on the important stuff: Georgia would require that new drivers take a written license test in English under a bill being considered by state lawmakers, and the proposal has some employers and immigrant advocates worried it would keep people unfamiliar with the language from being able to work. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3],"tags":[185,48],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-society","tag-english-only","tag-georgia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}