Language is organic. It evolves and spreads pretty much of its own accord. And you can regulate that process to about the same degree you can regulate the ocean.
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Our fear is that language is making us disunited. Indeed, many of the 63 senators who voted for this new measure probably did so with that Spanish-language rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner still ringing in their ears. As Sen. Jeff Sessions, Republican from Alabama, put it, the amendment “will help unify us as a nation.”
After which, Spider-Man and the Easter Bunny will help us win the war on terrorism.
See It’s liberty, not language, that unites a nation by Leonard Pitts ~ May. 22, 2006 ~ for the whole article.
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