Letters to the Editor

Oh, say can you care? The flap over a Spanish-language national anthem. Tim Grieve [2006-05-02]

• War Room slights African language

  Oh come on, you say you don't care if the national anthem is sung in Spanish, Swahili, Pig Latin, or pirate talk, and then you link to sites for Pig Latin and pirate talk, but not for Swahili? FYI, Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, and one of the larger world languages, spoken by between 1 and 2 percent of the world's population (roughly 100 million people). While you couldn't expect to walk into any store on planet earth and purchase so much as a stick of gum in Pig Latin or pirate talk, you could easily live a rich and complete life speaking only Swahili. The language has a deep history, a substantial literature, and, yes, even thousands of websites, the most prominent and thorough of which is this:

  http://www.yale.edu/swahili

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