To: tdadams; MadIvan
More multiculturalist crap. Why don't we bring back Aramaic or Latin or maybe Phoenician while we are at it?
Yes, let's maintain separate cultures and identities here in the states while we are at it. All this multiculturalist nonsense leads to further divisions and separatness and tribalism. Food for leftist movements who use it to divide and conquer.
I say that the day that English is the lingua franca in the entire planet can't get here soon enough. American English, that is.
17 posted on
11/18/2002 12:12:48 PM PST by
Cacique
To: Cacique
I say that the day that English is the lingua franca in the entire planet can't get here soon enough. American English, that is. Just as Latin, the lingua franca of its era, fragmented into dialects which became distinct Romance languages, so too will English dialects develop into separate languages.
18 posted on
11/18/2002 12:20:45 PM PST by
Loyalist
To: Cacique
Aramaic hasn't gone anywhere - the Chaldean Catholics still speak it. Not sure if that's only in the liturgy or in their daily life.
19 posted on
11/18/2002 12:24:38 PM PST by
nina0113
To: Cacique
I say that the day that English is the lingua franca in the entire planet can't get here soon enough. American English, that is. Sure, that's good for you. But I'm sure the Muslims are saying the same thing about Arabic. "Speak Arabic or die, infidel!"
That's really mature thinking.
23 posted on
11/18/2002 2:12:46 PM PST by
tdadams
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