It takes more than a language to unify a nation

[Benjamin Barrett]

The language is officially called Filipino, a language based on Tagalog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language. BB

Laurence Horn wrote:
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> At 2:07 PM -0500 2/24/07, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
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>> The choice was between Chinese, Korean,
>> |Spanish, English or Tagalog [sic]. It seems to me not unreasonable that
>> |since only U.S. citizens vote, and that one has to pass an English
>> language test to become a citizen, the ballet should be in English.
>>
> (although I'm not sure why Tagalog earns a [sic]; is there some reason why Filipinos
> are inherently less worthy of accommodation?).

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