Re: english, the of ficial national language

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

If we can have a poet laureate, then I guess we can have a National Language 
Dialect Laureate as well. Congress clearly needs to take on this project as 
well. But won't you have to move back to Washington so that people can hear you 
speak the model dialect in person? 

It would also make sense to set up a National Academy to make sure that the 
'Merkin English is kept pure. Congress needs to get on that, too. But wait ... 
don't the FRENCH have something like that? Hmmmmmm. Could it be that elite 
French intellectuals are really behind the National Unifying Language thing? 

In a message dated 5/23/06 9:36:53 PM, rshuy at montana.com writes:


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> Well my own, of course. Isn’t that how the US language planning game works?
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> Dear Roger,
> Do you think you could--without violating the copyright rights of your 
> publishers, of course--tell us which of the many Ohio dialects must be the 
> official one?
> Cheers,
> Ron
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> In a message dated 5/23/06 3:58:04 PM, rshuy at MONTANA.COM writes:
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> > Can anyone confirm which dialect the pols are designating as official?  Or
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