{"id":85434,"date":"2019-02-08T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85434"},"modified":"2019-02-08T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:08:56","slug":"one-official-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/08\/one-official-language\/","title":{"rendered":"One Official Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ydp82641910yahoo-style-wrap\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\n<div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\"><cite>Prof. Hudson McLean<\/cite><\/cite><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\">Unity of the Sinhala with One Official Sinhala Language<\/cite><\/div>\n<div><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\">English as Second Unifier Business Language<\/cite><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\"><\/cite><\/div>\n<div><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px;\">Whilst agreeing 100% with Christie, I might suggest the next Government (hopefully not UNP) decide to go the whole hog and make Sinhala the Only Official Language.<\/cite><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px;\"><\/cite><\/div>\n<div><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px;\">English may be used as the Unifier Business Language as adopted by many counties.<\/cite><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\"><\/cite><\/div>\n<div><cite style=\"text-align: justify; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\">Christie<\/cite><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0Says:\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px; font-weight: bold;\" \/><small class=\"ydpec32f3e9commentmetadata\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 0.9em;\"><a title=\"blocked::https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/08\/demise-of-sri-lankas-independenceconstitutional-reform-in-sri-lanka\/#comment-112472\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/08\/demise-of-sri-lankas-independenceconstitutional-reform-in-sri-lanka\/#comment-112472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 7th, 2019 at 6:50 pm<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 10px 5px 10px 0px; font-family: lucida grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: 10.8px;\">We Sinhalese the current majority in number but minority when it comes to politics and economy has to unite and stand up to Indian imperialists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ydp82641910signature\">\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">Express Your Opinion &#8211; Read What Others Say!<br \/>\nThe Independent Interactive Voice of Sri Lanka on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit -: http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hudson McLean Unity of the Sinhala with One Official Sinhala Language English as Second Unifier Business Language Whilst agreeing 100% with Christie, I might suggest the next Government (hopefully not UNP) decide to go the whole hog and make Sinhala the Only Official Language. English may be used as the Unifier Business Language as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hudson-mclean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}