>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/19/senate.english.ap/index.html
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>>>>Seems to me that the only results of making a national language is that more people know English, making it more efficient to run a government and easier for people in society to communicate and understand each other.
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>>>>Both being good things.
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>>>>I think we should also set metric as the national measuring system.
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>>>>But for some reason I doubt the Senators supporting a national language would see the value in a "common and unifying" system.
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>>>I think we should have English as the national language, then deviate on certain days. Say, tomorrow is National Pig Latin Day,next month is Ebonics, then follow that with other "real" languages once a month, or not!<g>
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>>Years ago on the Compuserve FoxForum there was a hilarious discussion about ersatz versions of FoxPro. Someone -- Ted Roche? -- had actually come up with a Pig Latin preprocessor that translated FoxPro commands. And then Wayne Willingham riffed on that to a Texan dialect of FoxPro. Sample commands:
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>>SHOW GITS
>>DEFAHN WINDER
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>That sounds lke Wayne, but it sounds like Whil on the first part!
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Yes, it does. For some reason I still think it was Ted. He has that dry New England humor that will catch you by surprise sometimes.