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Quotable

Send LALA quotable comments about language from recent media clips.

"From the point of view of language, Finland is home. But in every other way, L.A. is."

—Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on his present home of Los Angeles, quoted in The Los Angeles Times on Sept. 28, 2008.

"I could never learn Korean to go play [golf] in Korea... We are here because of what we do and because of our talent. Not because of the language we speak."

—Lorena Ochoa, LPGA's top golfer, commenting on a controversial LPGA rule, since retracted, requiring professional women's golfers to speak English, quoted in The Los Angeles Times on Sept. 6.

The Los Angeles Dodgers team "doesn't win championships but draw 3.5 million fans a year. One of my greatest satisfactions is that we might've been able to show other organizations the value of the Hispanic market."

—Jaime Jarrin, the Spanish-language voice of the L.A. Dodgers and Baseball Hall of Famer, quoted in The Los Angeles Times on June 24.

"When you have an individual who's isolated by a language barrier, and you compound that with an illness, they are just doubly isolated."

—Betty Jo Riendel, RN, Healthy Beginnings French Camp/ GYN clinic manager at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, CA, quoted in a Nurse.com news article on May 5.

Send your own Quotables, with sources and dates, to lalamag@international.ucla.edu

Date Posted: 10/17/2008