"Our mission is to protect the language rights of all kids," said Silvana Carlos, president of the Colorado Association for Bilingual Education.
S4C was launched in 1982 after a long-running battle by Welsh nationalists, including a threatened hunger striker, to protect the language and culture.
Similarly, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the language rights of minorities and section 27 provides that "This Charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians".
But Catz claimed that the only way to preserve Java's longstanding "write once, run anywhere" philosophy was to protect the language from interlopers like Google, which, in Oracle's view, warped it into non-compatible form with Android.
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said: "Language campaigners consistently say that we need reform in the planning system to protect the language, but no regard has been given today to the need for local councils to review their development plans to consider the Welsh language.
On paper, Canada encourages and protects the languages of its immigrants.
After the additions were announced, the German Language Society, an unofficial organization that has tasked itself with protecting the German language, voted the editors of the Duden the "language adulterers of the year," accusing them of legitimizing the demise of German.
But in the great American echo chamber, every mouse gets to roar, so Roger Meyer, who proposed the law, feels he is making progress toward protecting the English language from threats near and far.
The House version "replaced the 'alternative theories' language with language protecting the presentation of only 'scientific information' on the 'full range of scientific views'" (Matzke 2004).
As culture minister, Dr. Douste-Blazy fought hard to protect the French language against the growing encroachment of American English brought on by the Internet and globalization.
