What’s in a name?

Re “Gold Line segment gets Spanish name,” April 24

The effort to rename the Gold Line with its Spanish equivalent was misguided. While the whole world learns English as the language of science and international commerce, Los Angeles County discourages that essential key to success and education in its own Latino population.

The Latino population will never reach economic and educational parity as long as they cling to Spanish and maintain their linguistic and cultural isolation.

Larry Rivetz

Northridge

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With the Gold Line extension renamed “la Linea de Oro,” in the interest of fairness, I’d like to propose officially renaming the Purple Line its Korean translation.

Tom Roberts

Los Angeles