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Making English our official language is a winning issue
Washington Times ^ | 2023 | Tom Basile

Posted on 01/29/2025 10:23:00 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

Apart from the Constitution, in the most diverse nation in the world, the English language has been the one constant uniting force that has helped make this nation the success that it is.

Finally making English the official language of the United States is a winning issue.

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KEYWORDS: citizenship; english; immigration; officiallanguage
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

With ye olde Soviets and their “middle America town”, it is demonstrable that the lingua franca is American English.
The language that won WW2 was American English.
The language that finished WW1 was American English.
The language that won the Spanish-American War was American English.
The language OF THE CIVIL WAR was American English.
The language borne of The American Revolution, and further proven by The Wwar of 1812, was American English, shoved in the British king’s “whatzit”!


21 posted on 01/29/2025 11:02:46 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

was American English, shoved in the British king’s “whatzit”!


I thought it was in the British King’s “How’s Your Father”.


22 posted on 01/29/2025 11:03:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Terry L Smith

The language that won WW2 was American English.


That and RAF Banter

https://youtu.be/QWWPk9jrvqk?t=148


23 posted on 01/29/2025 11:04:52 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: lee martell

“I thought English already was our official language.”

The US has no “official” language. It has been attempted to put English in the position but it wasn’t voted in. It didn’t arrive in the US until the first European settlers in the 14 to 1500’s.

The first thought to be people arrived around eleven and a half thousand years ago when the Clovis People crossed a land bridge into what is now Alaska. They spoke early Russian and were hunters.

The predominant language in the US is now English but for a couple of hundred years after the Europeans arrive it was a few Mexican indian languages mixed with Spanish. English is considered the language of business world wide so we use it a lot. But if you’ll notice, many countries are using their original language as a second to English now.

I’ve flown into Mexico and Canada and very few times is there a problem with language at major airports. It’s only the small ones that you’re getting Spanish in Mexico and French in Canada used. At least the US was smart enough not to put Sicilian in Chicago.

wy69


24 posted on 01/29/2025 11:06:58 AM PST by whitney69
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To: packagingguy
The Treaty of Hidalgo recognizes Spanish in the purchased territories.

As a junior high student transferring into a San Diego junior high school from a northern Virginia high school, I saw that in action. My Spanish teacher in Virginia was teaching Castilian Spanish. The teacher in San Diego was supposed to be teaching Mexican Spanish. Because it was compulsory to teach the course, the room was full of people who really didn't want to be there. The teacher didn't want to be there either and often slept through the class period.

When I signed up for German in high school, my teacher was a native German speaker from Karlsruhe, Germany. My spoken German reflects her influence and was noticed by my German customers in Frankfurt. The Duolingo voice recognition gets particular about trailing 't' sounds. It's the only thing that I get frequently tagged for "failing".

25 posted on 01/29/2025 11:11:23 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: dfwgator

Ha! Knew that was going to be Monty Python.


26 posted on 01/29/2025 11:20:12 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

And Polish!

“Repeat, Please!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAx92nlkSr4


27 posted on 01/29/2025 11:22:23 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: whitney69
On approach to Brussels, the aircraft PA does the safety briefing in English, French, German and Dutch. I found the Dutch briefing interesting as it is delivered with a cadence similar to English. You are 5 syllables in before you notice it is Dutch and not English. I don't recall if the briefing was also offered in Spanish on the part of the trip. My last flight into Brussells was 1992.
28 posted on 01/29/2025 11:23:13 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: dfwgator
My taxi driver was Polish on my last visit to Chicago. He had a Polish language radio station playing when I got into the car. He turned it down. I asked him to turn it up. It's nice to hear another language spoken on the radio. When NATO was contemplating moving SHAPE operations to Poland, I was going to add Polish to my linguistic skill set. The move didn't materialize and I didn't follow through.

My favorite restaurant in the Chicago area is "A Taste of Polonia". It was on the way to our rail yard in Joliet (leaving from Countryside).

29 posted on 01/29/2025 11:28:08 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Yes, I listen to a lot of Polish music, because I figured it was the best way to learn, it has helped a lot.


30 posted on 01/29/2025 11:29:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

All Federal government business should be done in English. All Federal government domestic correspondence should be done in English. All public schools should be English only. Classes could be available for teaching legally present school entrants English but they should be outside of school.


31 posted on 01/29/2025 11:34:12 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe h-H-|-|)
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To: Myrddin

My father took Spanish in high school in California in the 1930s—Latin American Spanish. In the late 1930s he was in the Marines and stationed in Hawaii, so signed up for a Spanish class at the University of Hawaii. The teacher wanted them to use the Castilian pronunciation (”thinco” for “cinco”) but he refused.


32 posted on 01/29/2025 11:34:43 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: dfwgator
The RAF guys at SHAPE were always commenting on my "Canadian vowels". It was a consequence of living in Federal Way, WA at age 8. C'est la vie!

I was driving toward Liege from SHAPE to do some grocery shopping and spotted a billboard obviously campaigning against drunk driving. It was in French. I didn't have a good handle on all the words, so I purchased an English/French dictionary at the mini-mart outside the SHAPE cafeteria. I tossed it in my backpack to read after work. As I looked up the first unfamiliar word in French, the English translation was "bloke". Oh cr*p! My dictionary is UK English. Now I have to translate to American English. Boots, bonnets, lift, serviette. Oh well.

33 posted on 01/29/2025 11:35:36 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: dfwgator
Yes, I listen to a lot of Polish music, because I figured it was the best way to learn, it has helped a lot.

I do that with Welsh music. What I noticed was that early on my Welsh vocabulary was small and the music was sort of pleasant background noise. As my vocabulary grew, there was actual information instead of nice background noise. It became distracting. On the plus side, learning the words and tunes and singing along improved my skills at listening and speaking. Listening to music and movies in a language you want to learn really helps. Watching Star Trek with German voice overs is hilarious. The verbiage is fine, but the actual voices are very different from the original English speaking cast. That is the funny part.

34 posted on 01/29/2025 11:41:12 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Verginius Rufus
The teacher wanted them to use the Castilian pronunciation (”thinco” for “cinco”) but he refused.

I was only aware of Castilian and the "Mexican" variant. A high school classmate updated my perspective. There are 5 major versions. Her daughter speaks all 5 fluently.

I was digging into Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic. Scots is closer to "Old Irish". I found the Scots version more consistent. Irish Gaelic has many dialects. The country is still large enough with isolated populations to keep the dialects unique. Welsh really only has 3 dialects and you're expected to master all 3. It's unlikely that an Irish Gaelic speaker would be able to master all the dialects.

35 posted on 01/29/2025 2:30:09 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

My mother spoke Tuscan Italian which is a very different dialect from southern Italian.

Who knew?


36 posted on 01/29/2025 3:00:13 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: V_TWIN

I always press the Spanish button because the call gets picked up right away. Then I speak English. No one has ever challenged me.


37 posted on 01/29/2025 5:05:20 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Myrddin

I once heard a talk by a university professor of Spanish (in English) about the second person pronoun in several Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Quite a bit of diversity.


38 posted on 01/30/2025 6:06:56 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“the English language has been the one constant uniting force that has helped make this nation the success that it is.”

And the fact that it’s generally used worldwide as the standard.


39 posted on 01/30/2025 6:10:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: GingisK

That ship has sailed. It’ll never be the same.


40 posted on 01/30/2025 6:11:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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