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Trump to Sign Executive Order Making English Official U.S. Language
Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/28/2025 | Meridith McGraw

Posted on 02/28/2025 7:19:59 AM PST by marcusmaximus

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To: Dr. Sivana

Puerto Ricans should learn English.


41 posted on 02/28/2025 7:51:05 AM PST by Kleon
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To: Leaning Right

“I know it’s not your fault. But you don’t have tenure yet, and I’ve got to fire somebody.”

Picking the right people to fire is hard.
Picking the easy people to fire is easy.


42 posted on 02/28/2025 7:51:09 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: marcusmaximus

YAY!!!


43 posted on 02/28/2025 7:51:55 AM PST by goodnesswins (Democracy to Democrats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: marcusmaximus

English is also the international language of business.


44 posted on 02/28/2025 7:53:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

You can go anywhere in the world, and mostly likely all the signs will at least have English displayed along with the native language.


45 posted on 02/28/2025 7:54:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Leaning Right

25 years of direct observation of schools, it’s both. Everyone pops out of the same mold. I’ve had about 6-7 Superintendents. They all promise a “culture change”, nope. All spend to much, all need there office redone, they all hire there buddies and pay them high salaries, while test scores fall because they focus on the wrong things. There is hardly no learning, it’s all teaching the test


46 posted on 02/28/2025 7:58:35 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Leaning Right

25 years of direct observation of schools, it’s both. Everyone pops out of the same mold. I’ve had about 6-7 Superintendents. They all promise a “culture change”, nope. All spend to much, all need there office redone, they all hire there buddies and pay them high salaries, while test scores fall because they focus on the wrong things. There is hardly no learning, it’s all teaching the test


47 posted on 02/28/2025 7:58:49 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: marcusmaximus

How about another one to end DST?


48 posted on 02/28/2025 8:00:35 AM PST by JZelle
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To: dfwgator

I was watching a video on air traffic controllers yesterday. During the video otvwas mentioned that the official language for ATCs world wide is English......this should have been done LONG ago.


49 posted on 02/28/2025 8:01:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: marcusmaximus

Infuriating that Spanish text is on the ballot and just as big as English.


50 posted on 02/28/2025 8:02:18 AM PST by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Leaning Right

Does this mean I won’t have to press 1 to speak english anymore?


51 posted on 02/28/2025 8:02:41 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: V_TWIN

One of the interesting things about the invasion of refugees in Europe, is that many of them speak English and not the native language. That may ultimately result in English being adopted as an official language of countries, like Sweden, because the refugees aren’t going to bother learning a language that has little use outside of the country.


52 posted on 02/28/2025 8:03:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marcusmaximus

No more “Press 1 for English?” and get someone who can barely speak it?


53 posted on 02/28/2025 8:03:14 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: dfwgator

The last time my Hungarian-born aunt went back to visit her hometown in Hungary, she was a little disappointed about one thing.

She wanted to practice her Hungarian with them. But everyone there wanted to practice their English with her!


54 posted on 02/28/2025 8:03:30 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right

I had the same experience in Poland.


55 posted on 02/28/2025 8:04:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SkyDancer

Press 1 for Indian. Press 2 for Spanish.


56 posted on 02/28/2025 8:04:59 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Still waiting for the him to sign one repealing Daylight Savings Time..........


57 posted on 02/28/2025 8:05:05 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: marcusmaximus

Excellent. Muttley time.


58 posted on 02/28/2025 8:05:41 AM PST by BigEdLB (Adults are in charge )
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To: marcusmaximus

You do realize that India has about 1,000 languages, so English is the only common language most Indians know.

If it wasn’t for the British Empire, India would have really been screwed.


59 posted on 02/28/2025 8:06:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marcusmaximus

80/20 favorability


60 posted on 02/28/2025 8:08:11 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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