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When the Mayflower arrived, St. Augustine Florida and Santa Fe New Mexico were already Spanish speaking cities. Why didn`t the Pilgrims learn the native language?
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The government represents the peopleYea.....Google Translate is so expensiveThere is no reason for an "official" language in America. It is hauled out as an argument to make the xenophobes happy every so often. I agree that ballots should be in English, because in order to vote, you have to be a citizen, and the citizenship test requires a rudimentary understanding of English. What is on a ballot is primarily names. If there are referendum questions, voters are usually aware of (or can make themselves aware of) what they mean prior to going into the voting booth.Agreed
A common language is one of the things that unites us
Democrats don’t want the country united. That’s why little Amy doesn’t support English as the official language anymore. They want more Spanish and Arabic speakers, because that is “cultured” and that old white European stuff needs to be replaced.
As long as legal and medical and financial services are provided to ALL in this country, though, their languages need to be available. If you were in a foreign country and were arrested and no one would speak English to you, where would you be?
Oh gawd, STFU. No, taxpayers are not going to be held responsible for providing translation services for every third world piece of trash trying to leech off us.
Then English as the official language it is. If you can’t speak it, Google Translate.
I bet when the supreme court legalized homosexuality you predicted that someday liberals would claim there were dozens of sexes who must be allowed to pee in the girls bathroomThere is no reason for an "official" language in America. It is hauled out as an argument to make the xenophobes happy every so often. I agree that ballots should be in English, because in order to vote, you have to be a citizen, and the citizenship test requires a rudimentary understanding of English. What is on a ballot is primarily names. If there are referendum questions, voters are usually aware of (or can make themselves aware of) what they mean prior to going into the voting booth.AgreedI am all for English being the official language of the US and the sole language for all government offices.
A constitutional amendment about it is rather silly and a waste of time.
A common language is one of the things that unites us
Democrats don’t want the country united. That’s why little Amy doesn’t support English as the official language anymore. They want more Spanish and Arabic speakers, because that is “cultured” and that old white European stuff needs to be replaced.
As long as legal and medical and financial services are provided to ALL in this country, though, their languages need to be available. If you were in a foreign country and were arrested and no one would speak English to you, where would you be?
Oh gawd, STFU. No, taxpayers are not going to be held responsible for providing translation services for every third world piece of trash trying to leech off us.
My question hurt, didn't it? You know I'm right.There is no reason for an "official" language in America. It is hauled out as an argument to make the xenophobes happy every so often. I agree that ballots should be in English, because in order to vote, you have to be a citizen, and the citizenship test requires a rudimentary understanding of English. What is on a ballot is primarily names. If there are referendum questions, voters are usually aware of (or can make themselves aware of) what they mean prior to going into the voting booth.AgreedI am all for English being the official language of the US and the sole language for all government offices.
A constitutional amendment about it is rather silly and a waste of time.
A common language is one of the things that unites us
Democrats don’t want the country united. That’s why little Amy doesn’t support English as the official language anymore. They want more Spanish and Arabic speakers, because that is “cultured” and that old white European stuff needs to be replaced.
As long as legal and medical and financial services are provided to ALL in this country, though, their languages need to be available. If you were in a foreign country and were arrested and no one would speak English to you, where would you be?
Oh gawd, STFU. No, taxpayers are not going to be held responsible for providing translation services for every third world piece of trash trying to leech off us.
No, I'm not going to shut up, whether you like it or not.
And many of them are not even here legallyThe government represents the peopleYea.....Google Translate is so expensiveThere is no reason for an "official" language in America. It is hauled out as an argument to make the xenophobes happy every so often. I agree that ballots should be in English, because in order to vote, you have to be a citizen, and the citizenship test requires a rudimentary understanding of English. What is on a ballot is primarily names. If there are referendum questions, voters are usually aware of (or can make themselves aware of) what they mean prior to going into the voting booth.Democrats don’t want the country united. That’s why little Amy doesn’t support English as the official language anymore. They want more Spanish and Arabic speakers, because that is “cultured” and that old white European stuff needs to be replaced.
As long as legal and medical and financial services are provided to ALL in this country, though, their languages need to be available. If you were in a foreign country and were arrested and no one would speak English to you, where would you be?
Oh gawd, STFU. No, taxpayers are not going to be held responsible for providing translation services for every third world piece of trash trying to leech off us.
Then English as the official language it is. If you can’t speak it, Google Translate.
Not all of whom speak English proficiently
No. You brought up algebra. Only you would be stupid enough to bring up math in a discussionYou brought it up, champ.
When the Mayflower arrived, St. Augustine Florida and Santa Fe New Mexico were already Spanish speaking cities. Why didn`t the Pilgrims learn the native language?
Because Pilgrims were not residents of these cities, dumb ass! There was ZERO need to learn Spanish.When the Mayflower arrived, St. Augustine Florida and Santa Fe New Mexico were already Spanish speaking cities. Why didn`t the Pilgrims learn the native language?
I love my vacations in Spanish speaking Costa Rica where they`ve had universal healthcare since 1961. The shitholes are the countries run by rightwing dictators who we`ve been supporting for over a hundred years. Unfettered capitalism is what made them shitholes, not the Spanish language, dumbass.When the Mayflower arrived, St. Augustine Florida and Santa Fe New Mexico were already Spanish speaking cities. Why didn`t the Pilgrims learn the native language?
Smarter more powerful people get to make the rules...you should thank God that’s the case. Have you been to ANY Spanish speaking city, state or nation....they’re all human cockroach infested disgusting shitholes. Strange coincidence?
Absolutely true. It's interesting to note that English is the official language of Nigeria and that's too high a bar for some of the leftist a-holes here in this thread, and for Amy Klobuchar, though that may be redundant.I didn't say "FORCE" them.
I said they have no motivation to learn our common language, when there's no reason to.
If government and businesses would stick to one language in all of their communications, both printed, and verbal, all non-English speaking people would automatically be motivated to learn it !
Liberals hate unity, they want multiculturalism, they want an America made up of different groups who are alienated from one another.
If you want unity, language is the foundation, and the fact that you are against a one-language country screams that you are against unity !
Boo for right wing shitholes! Hurray for Communist paradises like Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea and Vermont. Am I right, comrade? Hurray for the glorious worker's republics. Hurray for senor Sanders.I love my vacations in Spanish speaking Costa Rica where they`ve had universal healthcare since 1961. The shitholes are the countries run by rightwing dictators who we`ve been supporting for over a hundred years. Unfettered capitalism is what made them shitholes, not the Spanish language, dumbass.
You've already abandoned the high road byThere is no reason for an "official" language in America. It is hauled out as an argument to make the xenophobes happy every so often.
I agree that ballots should be in English, because in order to vote, you have to be a citizen, and the citizenship test requires a rudimentary understanding of English
Well that's enlightened of you.. What is on a ballot is primarily names. If there are referendum questions, voters are usually aware of (or can make themselves aware of) what they mean prior to going into the voting booth.
Courts and hospitals would necessarily have to provide translators when necessaryAs long as legal and medical and financial services are provided to ALL in this country, though, their languages need to be available. If you were in a foreign country and were arrested and no one would speak English to you, where would you be?
... It's interesting to note that English is the official language of Nigeria ....
..... desire to Balknaize and split up the populace. ...".
......Courts and hospitals would necessarily have to provide translators when necessary.....
Just like the fact that English is their national language. No crying over that, as far as anyone knows.Over 500 languages are spoken in Nigeria, and no one bitches and moans about it.
No it wouldn't, dumb fuck. Court room translators aren't nearly the same thing as reams of government manuals, announcements, publications, etc. being printed up in everything from Spanish to Farsi and Mandarin.Courts? That would be "government documents"! Oh noes!!!!!!!!
Just like the fact that English is their national language. No crying over that, as far as anyone knows.Over 500 languages are spoken in Nigeria, and no one bitches and moans about it.
No it wouldn't, ......Courts? That would be "government documents"! Oh noes!!!!!!!!