Re: english, the of ficial national language

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

So some patriotic songs can, without blame, be translated into Spanish for 
singing on public patriotic occasions, but not others? So many rules when you 
have a national unifying language!!!

In a message dated 5/23/06 8:29:16 PM, dave at WILTON.NET writes:


> And Bush did not sing the national anthem in Spanish on the campaign trail.
> The song they sang in Spanish was "America the Beautiful." It was mistakenly
> reported as the "Star-Spangled Banner" by some news sources.
> 
> --Dave Wilton
>   dave at wilton.net
> 
> 

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