What the heck is an "official" language?

[Christina Paulston]

Rakesh,
	please tell Dennis I enjoyed his Modest Proposal and thanks for  
pointing it out to us.  Hope all is well with you, Christina
On Jun 25, 2007, at 4:02 AM, rbhatt at uiuc.edu wrote:

> There is a nice piece on this matter, on Official English for the US,  
> written by my colleague, Dennis Baron, that should be of interest to  
> this list.  The URL is:
>
> http://webtools.uiuc.edu/blog/view? 
> blogId=25&topicId=589&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286
>
> Or you can access it from:
>
> http://webtools.uiuc.edu/blog/view?blogId=25
>
> All best,
> Rakesh
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:49:56 +0100
>> From: "Anthea Fraser Gupta" <A.F.Gupta at leeds.ac.uk>
>> Subject: RE : What the heck is an "official" language?
>> To: <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>,  
>> <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
>>
>> Absolutely. We had  some discussion about this a couple of months  
>> ago. In actuality, the US, like the UK already has an official  
>> language. But even if English were to be made de jure the official  
>> language, I fail to understand why this designation would entail the  
>> proscription of other languages or a ban on any funding of other  
>> languages.
>>
>> Anthea
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>> Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
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