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...English has been amusingly defined as the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids. Its pragmatic, flexible nature has always been one of its great strengths. Make English the official language, and you will lose that strength. Why? Because if we make English the official language, then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become an increasingly unimportant and backwater dialect. Joseph Power Mountain View, California...
...distances - initially compelled Eisenhower. But, with the force of an idea whose time had arrived, the system and its eventual designers found broader inspirations - the German Autobahn, as well as the parkways built by New Yorker Robert Moses as early as the 1930s and the futuristic highway visions of Norman Bel Geddes and French Modernist Le Corbusier...
English has been amusingly defined as the result of Norman men-at-arms trying to pick up Saxon barmaids. Its pragmatic, flexible nature has always been one of its great strengths. Make English the official language, and we will lose that strength. Why? Because then we must officially define what English is and is not. The French did this with their mother tongue, and what was once the international language of diplomacy has become increasingly unimportant...
...Norman F. Ramsey...
...decades after he officially retired from Harvard, the University felt it was the right time for Higgins Professor of Physics emeritus Norman F. Ramsey, the man who co-developed cesium and atomic clocks, to be honored at yesterday’s Commencement exercises with an honorary degree...