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ENGLISH WON'T END BELGIUM'S LANGUAGE WARS (int'l edition)As a Dutch-speaking Belgian in Sweden, I wish to respond to ''Where the language wars heat up'' (Spotlight on Belgium, June 8). William Echikson proposes as a solution to the ''language wars'' in Brussels and Sint-Genesis-Rode that everybody speak English. But language and culture cannot just be replaced. English is common in business but cannot be the day-to-day language. Apart from letting everybody speak English, there is another obvious solution not only to the language wars but also to the [political] problems: Split the country and let Wallonia and Flanders find their own economic and political ways in a united Europe, with respect, of course, for culture and language.
Piet Delagaye
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