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“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for me”
Don Gagnon
There is evidence to suggest that some members of Congress aren’t fully sympathetic with the necessity for a commercial nation to be multilingual. As one congressman quite seriously told Dr. David Edwards, head of the Joint National Committee on Languages, “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for me” [quoted in the Guardian, April 30, 1988].
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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