English should be the official language?

[Xchel]

1. the US has always been based on the idea we are a melting pot
2. we don't speak English we speak a combination of languages. Words like faux pas are not English.
3. what exactly is it going to accomplish?
4. We weren't founded by English in reality...the natives were here first and there are so many languages and our language is so mixed that it makes no sense really. Why not make it Cherokee if you want an official language? after all we aren't English and in reality no one here speaks English.

 

[Xchel]

First of all I am not Mexican. I am Cherokee Indian and Hispanic...so let's make it easy for you...get a life this is not England and we don't speak English here. Furthermore, making any language EXCLUSIVE to any part of life makes it a violation of freedom of speech in the constitution.

 

[syrenn]

1. the US has always been based on the idea we are a melting pot
2. we don't speak English we speak a combination of languages. Words like faux pas are not English.
3. what exactly is it going to accomplish?
4. We weren't founded by English in reality...the natives were here first and there are so many languages and our language is so mixed that it makes no sense really. Why not make it Cherokee if you want an official language? after all we aren't English and in reality no one here speaks English.

1) and who is stopping it from being a melting pot having english as an official language?
2) The whole world speaks a combination of languages.
3) For one it will save the country a lot of money.
4) Again.. ill make it easy for you. What language are highway signs in?


5) ill put the same question to you again. What language do mexicans speak? mexican or spanish?

 

[Xchel]

A melting pot means no official language..especially when we have a bill of rights that includes everyone...

.In Meyer v. Nebraska, a landmark 1923 Supreme Court decision, the Court declared unconstitutional laws which restricted the use of non-English languages. In Meyer, the Supreme Court struck down a state statute that prohibited the teaching of any subject in a language other than English to students below ninth grade in public or private schools.

1923 case, Bartels v. Iowa, an Iowa statute requiring that all teaching be conducted only in English was declared unconstitutional. In Yu Cong Eng v. Trinidad, a 1926 case, a state statute which prohibited the keeping of accounting books in any language other than English or Spanish was unconstitutional because it denied equal protection to Chinese immigrants.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, programs that receive federal funding are prohibited from discrimination
How Can There Be Free Speech If It's Only In English?

 

[Xchel]

Mexicans speak a dialect of Spanish but not all of them..some of them speak other languages. In fact, there are 68 languages of Mexico, but you clearly did not know that. So which language would it be that they speak? Some of them speak Nauhutl, Yucatec Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, TZeltal Maya, Otomi, Totonac, Mazatec, Chotl*mayan*, and the list goes on and on including Qu' che..a mayan language common in Central America as well...but in just Nauhutl there are almost 2 million speakers and a lot of them don't speak Spanish...so when you ask what do they speak either Mexican or Spanish you would be clearly leaving out a good section of the population of Mexico that doesn't speak Spanish or even a dialect of Spanish, because NO Mexicans do not speak Castillian Spanish they speak Mexican Spanish and or a dialect of native americans. They also speak English, Chinese, Hebrew and the list goes on and on...do you really want to continue this or perhaps find out a little more about languages in Mexico before we go this route?

 

[syrenn]

Mexicans speak a dialect of Spanish but not all of them..some of them speak other languages. In fact, there are 68 languages of Mexico, but you clearly did not know that. So which language would it be that they speak? Some of them speak Nauhutl, Yucatec Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, TZeltal Maya, Otomi, Totonac, Mazatec, Chotl*mayan*, and the list goes on and on including Qu' che..a mayan language common in Central America as well...but in just Nauhutl there are almost 2 million speakers and a lot of them don't speak Spanish...so when you ask what do they speak either Mexican or Spanish you would be clearly leaving out a good section of the population of Mexico that doesn't speak Spanish or even a dialect of Spanish, because NO Mexicans do not speak Castillian Spanish they speak Mexican Spanish and or a dialect of native americans. They also speak English, Chinese, Hebrew and the list goes on and on...do you really want to continue this or perhaps find out a little more about languages in Mexico before we go this route?

Clearly i did. Been there dont that with dealing with all of the dialects. Do you speak mexican or spanish? Is it called mexican or spanish? it is a simple question.

 

[JWBooth]

Voted yes, but it begs the question, which version of English?

Cockney, Australian, Southron, Queens, yankee (ewwww), Texian, Nigerian, South African?

 

[Sky Dancer]

Having english be an official language is right wing lame.

 

[Moonglow]

Gingrich is wrong...English should not be our official language..the USA is not England.

Lets make this easy for you. Do mexicans speak mexican or spanish?

Mexican

 

[syrenn]

Gingrich is wrong...English should not be our official language..the USA is not England.

Lets make this easy for you. Do mexicans speak mexican or spanish?

Mexican

Really? They are rather insulted if you say they are speaking mexican and not spanish.

 

[Xchel]

Actually they aren't insulted at all...and you ask what do I speak Mexican or Spanish? Again why would I speak a Mexican dialect or any of the sort if I am Cherokee Indian? I wasn't born in Mexico nor was anyone in my family except those folks born there pre Texas independence.

 

[Moonglow]

Lets make this easy for you. Do mexicans speak mexican or spanish?

Mexican

Really? They are rather insulted if you say they are speaking mexican and not spanish.

The ones I speak to every week at work get angry when you say espanol and not mexicano, now I just used spanish, not mexican

 

[Tank]

Who ever is the majority will decide

 

[syrenn]

Actually they aren't insulted at all...and you ask what do I speak Mexican or Spanish? Again why would I speak a Mexican dialect or any of the sort if I am Cherokee Indian? I wasn't born in Mexico nor was anyone in my family except those folks born there pre Texas independence.

Actually... in my experience... they are very touchy about "speaking mexican" I have no idea what you are, excuse the assumption.

i will rephrase.

Do mexicans speak mexican or spanish.

 

[Sky Dancer]

1. the US has always been based on the idea we are a melting pot
2. we don't speak English we speak a combination of languages. Words like faux pas are not English.
3. what exactly is it going to accomplish?
4. We weren't founded by English in reality...the natives were here first and there are so many languages and our language is so mixed that it makes no sense really. Why not make it Cherokee if you want an official language? after all we aren't English and in reality no one here speaks English.

I agree with you. Making english an official American language is ridiculous.

 

[Swagger]

Ever since its transition from a colonial possession to a sovereign state, citizens of the United States have normally communicated (in an official capacity) in a wandering variation of Estuary English.

 

[editec]

As long as French is the national kiss, Turkish is the offical bath, and Russian is the offical roulette, I guess I'm okay with that.

 

[Unkotare]

Words like faux pas are not English.

Yes they are.

 

[Mr.Nick]

What would be a better language?

Spanish - as in Cortes Spain Spanish???

French?

What the fuck is wrong with English?

What is wrong with the language being the "official" language for that matter?

 

[Mr.Nick]

10 bucks says the majority of progressives believe the natives spoke Spanish.