Posted on 07/27/2018 11:44:44 AM PDT by rktman
As the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on migrants, speaking any language besides English has taken on a certain charge. In some cases, it can even be dangerous. But if something has changed around the politics of English since Donald Trump took office, the anger Schlossberg voiced taps into deeper nativist roots. Elevating English while denigrating all other languages has been a pillar of English and American nationalism for well over a hundred years. It’s a strain of linguistic exclusionism heard in Theodore Roosevelt’s 1919 address to the American Defense Society, in which he proclaimed that “we have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boardinghouse”.
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There is a bank headquartered in Spain that does business globally. The language spoken in the home office, due to global business, is English.
Dangerous not to speak English? Really?
I go places all the time, and am in the presence of people speaking many other languages. I sure don’t see anyone cowering in fear as they freely speak whatever language they are speaking in public.
English has one of, if not the largest Lexicon of World Languages and is stealing and generating more words every day. (It’s very sustainable and organic.)
Very few gender assigned words.
Reads from left to right.
What’s not to like?
English language is taking over the planet
Good!
But.......which English...….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWeWbrzqA8
No language is as descriptive as English. However, learning as many languages as possible is a very worthy goal.
I suppose we’re all supposed to use French, where it takes five words to say “software”.
Watched the remake of “Overboard” the other night. What a mistake.
About 15 to 20% of the movie was in Spanish. It may have been less, but it actually seemed like a lot more.
It was insulting.
This glorification of the Hispanic culture over our own, is getting very very tedious.
I don’t have a problem with that.
Just don’t try to tell me we are not a nation of one language.
We don’t divide our people into groups.
We are all one people, and English is the language here.
If folks don’t like it, they can march right back where they came from.
Do what you want as a family, I have no problem with it.
In public, it’s English.
If a person does not speak English well, it is not likely he or she will be treated seriously in business, academia, diplomacy or politics. Not right, but just the way it is.
Except in the USA
How many French words does it take to say "Who has the white flag?"
Aviation world wide requires English.
If English comes back, and Spanish is removed from medications, I’ll be able to read how many pills to take!
Aviation English: Language pilots must speak, regardless of nationality
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Requires or preferred. Just wonderin’. Pilots?
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