IT DOES NEED AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE...:

German Language 'on the Defensive' (Der Spiegel, 12/04/08)

Does Germany need an official language? It is a question that might surprise some. After all, most would be likely to assume that the country already has an official language: namely, German. And yet, nowhere in the constitution is the idiom enshrined as the nation's official means of communication. At least not yet.

On Tuesday, delegates to the annual Christian Democrat (CDU) party congress, held this time around in Stuttgart, voted to support a constitutional amendment that would enshrine German in the so-called "Grundgesetz" -- or "Basic Law." German, says Peter Müller, who is governor of the south-western state of Saarland, should be "rightfully preserved" in the constitution.

It is a tricky proposition.

...but that language is English.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 4, 2008 11:02 AM