Day 11

West Virginny passed a law making English its official language. Blogs have no official language; English is de facto the 'net's language. Blogs are personal, in the writer's conversational language for that language's readers. Replace English, spoken by only one of four people in the world, with the "universal language" Esperanto, spoken by a healthy one in 3,500 people. It's hard to argue with the man who spoke at the school meeting concerning adding "world" languages to the curriculum: "Why have any foreign language classes? After all, if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me."

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