English Official Language?

Spencer Collins · #1 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:34 PM

Should the United States have English as our "official" language"

tristanrobin · #2 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:36 PM

English is our official language.

That doesn't mean that everybody has to speak it.

When we go to France (where the official language is French), we speak English.

Spencer Collins · #3 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:42 PM

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me."Ma" Ferguson

tristanrobin · #4 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:43 PM

LOL

as long as they keep only giving citizenship tests in English, I don't care what language people speak. If I can't understand 'em, fuck 'em LOL

cnredd · #5 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:51 PM

Teddy Roosevelt...

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.

Addressing the Knights of Columbus

New York City

12 October 1915

Here; here!...

Spencer Collins · #6 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 06:55 PM

YouTube - English Should Be The U.S.' Official...

foundit66 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 07:18 PM

0) The guy in the youtube video annoys the heck out of me.

1) With that said, I think I am more in the "agreeing with him" section than "disagreeing with him".
I work some overseas, and when I don't understand their language, I don't blame them.
When they don't understand me, it's not their fault, and there is no rational requirement for them to fix my language comprehension deficiency.

2) As long as "official language" does not mean a penalty for others, I'm fine with it.
And by "penalty", I do not count having only English on the ballot as a penalty. I do not count public schools teaching only in English as a "penalty".

3) Putting "Si" on the poll, with no English "Yes"?
That's a pretty wicked sense of humor...

tristanrobin · #8 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 07:25 PM

YouTube - Press One For English

cnredd · #9 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tristanrobin

YouTube - Press One For English

I like the sentiment...

But damn!...That's one dumb song...I could've written better in my sleep...

Spencer Collins · #10 (**permalink**) 10-12-2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by foundit66

0) The guy in the youtube video annoys the heck out of me.

Same here....

Quote:

Originally Posted by foundit66

1) With that said, I think I am more in the "agreeing with him" section than "disagreeing with him".
I work some overseas, and when I don't understand their language, I don't blame them.
When they don't understand me, it's not their fault, and there is no rational requirement for them to fix my language comprehension deficiency.

Yup..even though there is "sompin" weird about him,I agree with most of what he said.

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Originally Posted by foundit66

2) As long as "official language" does not mean a penalty for others, I'm fine with it.And by "penalty", I do not count having only English on the ballot as a penalty. I do not count public schools teaching only in English as a "penalty".

Full agreement..

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Originally Posted by foundit66

3) Putting "Si" on the poll, with no English "Yes"?
That's a pretty wicked sense of humor...

Si..

View Poll Results: Should the United States have English as our "official" language"
Si	13	86.67%
No	2	13.33%
Other?	0	0%
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