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Apr 24, 2008

Confusing People In 15 Languages


The Social Security Administration has announced that it now offers information on the internet in the following 15 languages other than English:

Arabic
Armenian
Chinese
Farsi
French
Greek
Haitian-Creole
Italian
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
Russian
Tagalog
Vietnamese

Italian, but not German? Portuguese, but not Japanese? Korean, but not Hindi-Urdu? Greek, but not Swahili? There are choices to be made. Perhaps they based it upon the frequency with which they encounter immigrants speaking a particular language. Perhaps, they are working on others.

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