<div dir="ltr">Unfortunately, the link is not working.<div>Can you please send an updated link.</div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Baron, Dennis E <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debaron@illinois.edu" target="_blank">debaron@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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For International Mother Language Day I’ve reposted a slightly updated version of “Don’t Make English Official, Ban It Instead.”
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<p>It's <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/" target="_blank">
International Mother Language Day</a>, and once again, the U.S. House of Representatives is considering
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr997/BILLS-113hr997ih.pdf" target="_blank">
legislation</a> to make English the official language of the United States. Supporters of the measure say that English forms the glue that keeps America together. They deplore the dollars wasted translating English into other languages. And they fear a horde
of illegal aliens adamantly refusing to acquire the most powerful language on earth.</p>
<p>I would like to offer a modest alternative: don’t make English official, ban it instead.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>. . . . read the full post at the Web of Language:
<a href="http://bit.ly/weblan" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/weblan</a></p>
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<div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:x-small;text-align:-webkit-auto">English Dept: <a href="tel:217-333-2390" value="+912173332390" target="_blank">217-333-2390</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px"><font face="Helvetica">read the Web of Language:</font></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Dr Aditi Ghosh<div>Assistant Professor<br><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div>Calcutta University</div><div>87/1 College Street</div><div>Kolkata -700073</div><div><br></div><div>Phone - 91 9831858302</div><div>email- <a href="http://aditi.gh" target="_blank">aditi.gh</a>@<a href="http://caluniv.ac.in" target="_blank">caluniv.ac.in</a></div><div> <a href="http://aditi.gh" target="_blank">aditi.gh</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></div></div></div>
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