13th March 2003, 12:29 PM
DLN, my POINT was that we have a totally different speech that people give when they become a US member. That's the nearest equivelent, because it's the SAME THING as what you have. The pledge of alligence isn't the same speech at all. It's just weird. Comparing it to your immigrant speech is the same as comparing it to our own.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)