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Spanish, not English, is the most all-American language and has been for centuries
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Posted on 05/28/2018 12:39:32 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Lurkinanloomin
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:11:36 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: CodeToad
You put it better than me.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:13:33 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: MNDude
Is America a geographic region, or a political-historical entity? The kind of sloppy thinking evinced by writing such as this is disheartening.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:22:59 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: MNDude
>>
Just re-read your history books. Spaniards had already established vibrant colonies from St. Augustine to Santa Fe by the time the English set up Jamestown in 1607. Previous generations of Americans knew to learn at least some Spanish when they moved into whats now the Southwest United States, when it was still part of Mexico. And the lingo of the most American icon of them all, the cowboy, is mucho mucho with Spanish roots, from buckaroo (from vaquero cowboy) to vamoose (from vamoslets go) to that most red-blooded car of them all, the Mustang (from the Spanish word for stray animals). And what language do you think the names of red states like Colorado, Florida, Montana and Nevada come from? <<
So wait, are they a dominant culture of the United States since Europeans first arrived here, or a marginalized oppressed minority group? Make up your minds, leftists.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:23:29 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
To: MNDude
Spanish is spoken mostly because it’s an easy language, bereft of most of the nuances and complexities of English and French. People who come here from Spanish speaking countries continue to speak it because they’re too lazy to learn English and the culture does not make doing so necessary to their survival.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:25:26 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
To: reg45
70 years ago, Milwaukee, Wisconsin had signs in store windows “English spoken here” - else it was German.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:33:53 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: laplata
tough..... to say, but the Great Southwest was predominantly Indian Language groups, Ute, Navajo, Apache,....and sometimes they didn’t speak Spanish. I would thing the 2nd language after English spoken in the USA was German. All over America there were German settlements, and in the north, it was Swedish and Norwegians. All of them quickly, including the Irish and Italian adapted to their new homeland and learned English. Wonder why it has taken SO LONG for the people in the southern parts of Texas to catch on. Visit Laredo, Texas and see the vast majority of people speak Spanish.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Don’t overlook Venezuela & Cuba.
There but for the grace of God, go I.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:35:22 PM PDT
by
HangThemHigh
(Entropy is not what it used to be.)
To: MNDude
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:42:06 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
To: CodeToad
"Spanish was spoken in Kali, Texas, and Florida. Thats about it. The rest was English. " Uh, no. French was well in the mix in that time frame. The territory that became the "Louisiana Purchase" and just about doubled the size of the United States was French.
That said, ENGLISH is and should be the official legal language of the US, and if you plan to live here, you need to speak it.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:46:27 PM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: Flick Lives
"... in IT"
Air Traffic Control too.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:51:12 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: laplata
Zoro spoke pretty good English....
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:53:04 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: laplata
Zorro spoke pretty good English....
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:53:16 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Arm_Bears
The Conquistadores, who ended cannibalism in Central and South America.
Eso está bien para mi.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:53:34 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: livius
Dewey Decimate us System?
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:57:13 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Wonder Warthog
“The territory that became the “Louisiana Purchase” and just about doubled the size of the United States was French. Uh, no. “
Uh, yes.
Your confusing territory with inhabited. Back then, many countries claimed territory it never occupied.
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posted on
05/28/2018 2:58:29 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: rolling_stone
The English now speak a cross of Dhimmi English and Dystopian “New Speak”.
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posted on
05/28/2018 3:01:39 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: MNDude
Which is why the Declaration, Articles, and Constitution were all written in Spanish...
... Oh, wait.
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posted on
05/28/2018 3:04:35 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: Vaquero
99
posted on
05/28/2018 3:07:31 PM PDT
by
Lean-Right
(Eat More Moose)
To: MNDude
THIS IS AMERICA!
WE SPEAK ENGLISH!
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posted on
05/28/2018 3:10:01 PM PDT
by
Taxman
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