A booklet came recently entitled Comcast XFinity Customer Privacy Notice. It is forty-eight pages. That’s a lot of overkill about privacy, I thought. So I opened it. Twenty-two pages about privacy in English. Then twenty-six more pages of the same message in Spanish.
Increasingly, whatever I buy includes English and Spanish labels, instructions, warranties. I wrote a column in The Commercial Appeal twenty years ago warning this would happen if Congress didn’t make English the official language of the United States. I didn’t think it would come to pass in my lifetime. I had spent years creating advertising and sales literature for clients in Canada. All had to be in English and in French. What a waste.