>What version of the American form of English will be our standard? North East, South, South West, Midwest, West Coast? How about Valley Girl (San Fernando Valley – Los Angeles)? “Gag me with a spoon”! :)
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>>>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>

Well, it would have to be Southern, don't you think?<g>