english, the official national language

[James Smith]

Whul, Uh gotta ’gree; Inglush needs tu be th’uffishul
lang’gwage of th’ USA.  Thu sooner we lock up a few
people fur sayin’ thangs like “He don’t got” and “I
ain’t”, thu better off wi’ll all be.  Persun’lly, I
thing kenywon who uses a double neg’tive deezurves thu
’lectric cha’r.

Adios,


--- Barnhart <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:

> Are you folks beginning to take on the demeanor of a
> lobby?  If so, you
> must have thought far enough ahead to have a list of
> penalties appropriate
> to the level of dysdialectal behavior, or is it
> misbehavior dialectally?
> I'm thinking of finding a dialect coach to help me
> fend of the federales
> (oops. I mean G-men, or will it be L-person?)
>
> At what point will one's tongue be cut out?
>
> Anonymously and Fearfully yours!
>
>
>
> American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on
> Tuesday, May 23, 2006
> at 10:51 PM -0500 wrote:
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> >Sender:       American Dialect Society
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> >Poster:       sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
> >Subject:      Re: english, the official national
> language
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> >
> > >- >>
> >>> Can anyone confirm which dialect the pols are
> designating as official?
> > Or
> >>> have they not gotten around to that yet?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>> barnhart at highlands.com
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >I seem to remember that this matter was settled
> many years ago when the
> >army or some other undoubted authority chose the
> dialect of that St. Louis
> >native, Vincent Price (!) , to represent on
> language records for teaching
> >purposes, the  true standard American English
> tongue.  I'd love to hear
> >W's
> >rendition of that dialect (more an idiolect, I'd
> have thought).  (Or do I
> >mean isolect?)
> >Alison
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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