I've been following the movement to make English the official language of the U.S. with great interest. It seems to me that both sides make an excellent case.

On the one hand, it is important for the people of a nation to share certain values. A common language is vital to this end.

On the other hand, it doesn't seem fair to make everybody speak English just because most of us do.

So I propose that a) we do, genuinely, need a National Language, and

b) there's no reason we can't pick the most logical language in the galaxy and make everybody learn that, rather than privileging certain groups.

Thus.

One major problem is that most writers on Vulcan linguistics approached Vulcan from an Earth of the 20th Century point-of-view. Also, they neglected to consider that there must be more than one major language in use on the planet Vulcan. These people acted as if their language was the only "real" version and refused to accept anyone else's work. We have had people react to us this way. Considering the hundreds of languages on Earth, it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that many languages did and still do exist on Vulcan. We all have to remember that the Vulcan languages are alien languages. They are not related to any of the languages of Earth! Trying to fit them into a human mold is most illogical. Our research has been conducted as a professional, scholarly project.

UPDATE: But what do I know?

Created by a french music instructor named Jean François Sudre, Solresol remains, despite its practical disappearance, the most beautiful and perfect language ever created by one man. It consisted of just seven syllables, the notes of the scale — Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, and Si (which we now call Ti) — that could be combined according to the rules of an orderly grammar to form a vocabulary of 11,732 possible words.

Shiny.