English and Chinese to Become Official World Languages

[Garson O'Toole]

Someone named David Paul posted  a version of this article: "English
and Chinese to Become Official World Languages" on linkedin.com. Later
he followed the article with a post saying:  "I hope everybody enjoyed
April 1." This evidence indicates that the post is an April Fools
joke. Here is a link to the article. (I do not know how long this link
will work.):

http://goo.gl/9hv5C

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Is this an April 1Â joke?
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> IMO, it is.
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> -Wilson
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