On the issue of the Tamil language, Mr. Karunanidhi said the Supreme Court had struck down attempts by the state government to make Tamil a compulsory language in school.
He claimed that (unnamed) forces both inside Algeria and abroad had been "fanning hatred, and sowing subversion and division" and suggested that the issue of the Berber language might be dealt with in an amendment to the constitution.But Algerians remain sceptical of Mr Bouteflika's ability to change things.
The issue of the island's language, however, got Mr. Romney's chief rival, Rick Santorum, into some hot water on his visit here, when he said that to become a state, Puerto Rico would have to make English its primary language.
The issue of the relatedness of language and culture is still a controversial one, and it is now thought by many scholars that the relationship is not as close as was first suspected.
The issue of the use of the local language was also pointed out in a counselling context where informants needed a language that would make complex messages clear and more understandable to the user.
Mark Aguirre, who in his appeal of a reprimand raised the issue of the chief's own history of foul language.
Linguist Stephen Pinker returns with a study on contemporary language, addressing the issue of the arguably outdated Elements of Style, and replacing its rigidness with the revolutionary idea that cognitive science should be the basis of language rules.
The current public editor, revisiting the issue of hard language choices the other day, sounded a little less convinced.
