Supporters of official English in the United States can learn from Slovakia

[Tom Zurinskas]

This article makes no cogent point about "official English".  Goes to show that if anyone has a point please make it rather than lead us to a site that may or may not and waste our time.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Subject: Supporters of official English in the United States can learn
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> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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> Supporters of official English in the United States can take a hint =20
> from Slovakia, where a new official language law promises to be two, =20
> two, two things in one: it=92s a nation builder and an agent of =20
> oppression.
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> Find out more. Read the post on the Web of Language: =
> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage
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> Dennis Baron
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