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Show .. '. Xolumnly speaking Official language bill : could cause problems ! for some native Utahns ' '' ,y , . By DONETA GATHERUM : V ; -t -yf- ' y--f'-:A.x,. -' " --.:'.;. - '-AS, -":??.',.,-' . . One of the bills proposed by some state. legislators had me, a native : speaking Utahn, worried. If the measure had become law, English would - have been the official language of Utalw This would be a major problem to ? . native speakws like me'. 5 1 - ' For example, if English were the official language, Utahns could no i longer Say Chimnee or-chunnley (chimney), sua fsq , (wash) or quepon (coupon). 'i-' Jt;::-:.- i. J; : ; Z 'J'JJ. v The legislature would have to establish a committee to determine which ' is porrect-these ones, them ones or those ones. ' ' , a "; 1 Linguists could be hired to debate the 100-year-old question "How do ?4 ; i yodrcally pronounce Hurricane, Hooper, Tooele and Escalante?,t; ; 'If English became. Our official language, would we have to re-name ;?. Span: hFarwk (Fork)? - ' . . , LocLir i at the positive side, if English were designed as our language,; fines ccuJ ts irrpesed on radio and television announcers and public : i .rs v. .j ' 1 to put the "th". on tern and Licist "we are goin' to im-"." prove" -sr5f:-:n' tetter." CI; -7, .... J L. w "i cur cfTicial larv would send many ULJm -sp-'' r ?my- T,ipakr:crisitcrc:k(:-:.!.)? , ' . ' . :. ... . f . . I ' J 1 ' - n - :.- .-' r : - ' ' " |