Should English be the official language of the U.S?

That would make sense if all languages were equally represtented, which they are not. That there's ballots in spanish but not swedish doesn't reflect any anti-swedish bias, just common sense on behalf of the government. The languages are treated according to their size, as they should be.

 

I was thinking, just the other day, that as we begin to develop the world order government, that we should have at least one country on each continent for each of the well established languages. The United States along with Australia, and England, would retain the Majesty's English; and then the Spanish countries guard Espanol, the French guard French, and so forth. There are lots of details to be worked out, but I am sure things will.

 

We speak English, our road signs are in English,, our laws are in English, etc.

Speak English or get the (*)(*)(*)(*) out.

 

I hope it gets changed to Spanish just to (*)(*)(*)(*) people off.

 

English as an Official language would likely improve our inner city school scores(Especially LA public schools) and would likely save tax money but we would have to actually start hiring teachers who can actually speak English themselves.

That might help too. Teachers who actually know what they are teaching.

 

The change would be making other languages "official languages". We have a history of immigrants learning our American English and their next generations learning it as their primary language. To become a naturalized citizen the immigrant must demonstrate a working knowledge and ability to speak English. The opposition to it comes from those who want to grant amnesty and immediate citizenship to illegal aliens within our borders primarily speaking Mexican Spanish.

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Wow what a thought out well founded reason.

 

How is it "far right" - Sweden, Holland, and Denmark (probably some of the most socially liberal countries on earth) have Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Danish as their respective official language. Now all of a sudden the Netherlands is "far right"?

Sounds like anything an inch to the right of Bill Ayers must be "far right" then by that logic

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Then you're too concerned with "what people think" rather than "what actually is true"

 

Anyone who is living in the US should probably learn Spanish pretty quickly. Another one of Montezuma's revenges? They are rapidly becoming leading representatives of many things here and in Mexico. What jobs have moved to Mexico... Aerospace?

 

Preserving a language, especially English in the U.S, is often associated with right wing nationalism. That's why I wanted to clarify that.

 

lol, this.

Right wingers would have a conniption

 

Well wouldn't you term it nationalism for ANY country that wants to preserve the common language? What is right wing about it, there are other countries that do and they are not right wing.

 

Why is it something you'd like to just **** off over?

 

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Yes, absolutely! The Spanish & Portuguese Conquistadores who landed on these blessed shores 500+ years ago were required to read out the Requierimiento in Latin, & if they were feeling generous, in Spanish or in Portuguese, to the Native Peoples they had the privilege to shortly thereafter enslave &/or massacre. The natives, of course, had no idea what the noise was about. (On an exceptionally fine day, a translator might be used. But the presence of the natives was optional - the Requierimiento could be read out upon merely spotting land, to empty beaches, to the Native Peoples in chains, etc.) But I'm sure the adventurers, soldiers, sailors & the King's taxman & the monks all felt so much better for having observed the niceties of the matter. The Native Peoples themselves - well, they didn't last long enough to learn enough European language to leave any indication one way or the other about their fate - not that their fate were the gist of the matter, of course.

So, yes, yes! Just as posting the 10 Commandments will doubtless transform the Godless idolatry & secular humanistic tendencies of the vile public curriculum, just so the ukase setting forth English as the Official Language in the realm will doubtless inspire the little wretches. Make it so! With all possible speed!

 

Sure, but at least here in the U.S, there does seem to be many on the left that believe preserving a national language makes one a right wing extremist.

 

Uh, yeah...

Maybe not you though. Please post in Spanish or Portuguese from now on. Or if you want to impress 5 people on the planet you could scribble some pictures on a sheet of paper, scan it and post that way from now on. A picture is worth a thousand words is it not?

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whats about an American language instead?

 

What about pre-indo-european languages in europe instead?

 

do we have those?

 

Basque is left, and maybe some very tiny languages.

 

At the rate we're going, in about 50 years the official language of the U. S. will be Mandarin Chinese. Remember, at one time the "official" language of the most powerful and influential nation on Earth was Latin. But Rome decayed and became rotten and ruined. Who speaks Latin today...?

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Nah, it'll likely never be Chinese. You'd have to learn a whole new syllabary, get a proper brush, ink, learn to make ink, clean the brush, get proper paper, learn to prepare & hold a brush properly, change print orientation, and on & on. Tone is a big item, too, & most of us can't hear the distinctions. Our children could learn, but it would take a lot of effort on the parents' part.

Latin is hardly spoken anymore, although there still is R. Catholic Church Latin, plus written Latin - I believe it's still a requirement for theology & philosophy majors. & of course there are all the Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, etc. speakers. We have lots of Latin word roots & prefixes & suffixes.

Because of the religious dimension, Latin will never go away - unless, of course, you manage to do away with Christianity.

 

No, once the Rodents finally hand over the deed to the White House to Mexico, Mexico City will impose the same immigration laws here that they presently have down there.

 

I'm uncertain what point you are making, but I'll confess that when I made a "C" in Latin at the university level, I was greatly relieved. Any language with an ablative case is formidably complex and best approached with wariness and trepidation by all scholars from vulgar backgrounds.... German was more difficult, but less vexed. Mandarin Chinese always sounds to me like a series of lisping whispers.

 

Mandarin is doomed to never be an international language due to their very hard and confusing pitching. I think there's a real chinese sentence that goes like ma má mà mâ ma or something, and it meant something with mother eating something, and a horse. But non-chinese will have a hard time differentiating ma from má, or mà from mâ. Complicated languages like that are just doomed.

 

Shouldn't be an official language