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I did not know English was not the official language of the U.S.
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Joaquin1975 said:
If it was, the president would have to learn to speak it.
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English is already the official language of law, because you cannot accurately translate legislation and have it mean exactly the same thing in two languages. Every law in the United States must be codified in English. So English already iis, for all reasons of any import, the language of the land. But to make English the "official" language of the United States, to say that a person who does not speak English well can be denied things (and that is what will happen) is to invite years of umbrella legislation on the federal, state, county and city levels that will serve to make one citizen of the United States less than another citizen. It's legislated discrimination, and hostile to over 300 years of nation-building immigration. And it isn't necessary, since English is already the official language of the law. Harry Reid was right when he said the Senate push is a racist move agasint Spanish speaking people. We don't need an "official" anything. We don't need an official religion, sport, favorite ice cream flavor or language.
And if they do make English the official language of the United States, we're going to have to pick just which words are official, and which aren't. New York English? Alabama English? Can you have a sign on your store that uses local colloquialisms that mix languages a little? Is there a limit to how many foriegn words you can have on your store sign? One? Is "Mucho Groceries" okay? Do you really want to pay for all the court cases that are going to come up? Or is this solving a problem that doesn't need solving?
Adios.
And if they do make English the official language of the United States, we're going to have to pick just which words are official, and which aren't. New York English? Alabama English? Can you have a sign on your store that uses local colloquialisms that mix languages a little? Is there a limit to how many foriegn words you can have on your store sign? One? Is "Mucho Groceries" okay? Do you really want to pay for all the court cases that are going to come up? Or is this solving a problem that doesn't need solving?
Adios.
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A bill was introduced in the house several years ago, to make English the official language. It got shot down by the liberal Democrats.Joaquin1975 said:
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I did not know English was not the official language of the U.S.
You do know this is a double negative, right?
LMAO
You do know this is a double negative, right?
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Wilben said:
That makes one of you, then. I'm fairly certain he has no idea what a double negative is.
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Joaquin1975 said:
You're quite welcome.
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Wilben said:
Let's see... maybe there are other ways to make it better on the eyes.
"English is not the official language of the U.S., wow, I am surprised."
"I did not pay attention in school. English is not the official language of the U.S."
the list goes on.
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Dixon Carter Lee said:
But I think myself and many other Americans believe there are certain things you should not be able to to do without being able to speak English. Like say vote. Get a driver's license. Take the citizenship test. These things should not be translated into other languages. It isn't a racist move against them. Its at worse a nationalist move toward us. For all the people who say that we should learn both languages how many languages do we expect us and our children and our grandchildren to know. Once Spanish becomes an equal language in the US what do we do if we have a massive influx of French speaking citizens, or if the Middle East collapses and we have massive amounts of Arabic speaking citizens. Should ever child in America be forced to be trilingual? Comparing an official language to an official sport, or ice cream is irresponsible and you know it because they are in no way the same thing.
Why would we have to pick which ones are official? How bout whatever Webster or Oxford says is a word is a fucking word. I mean the Brits have more dialects than we do. They can damn near tell you what block somebody came from (granted they all sound the same to me) but they don't have problems defining what a word is. Freedom of Speech would of course remain intact so whatever you put on your store would be completely unnaffected. If you wanted to put the first word in Spanish and the second in French and the third in Arabic that is your bussiness not mine not the countries.
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