Interesting.
1 posted on
05/20/2018 1:55:26 PM PDT by
sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle
American is the official language.
2 posted on
05/20/2018 1:56:47 PM PDT by
moovova
To: sodpoodle
“FYI: English isn’t the official language of the United States”
That’s why a second term is needed from Trump.
3 posted on
05/20/2018 1:57:08 PM PDT by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
To: sodpoodle
4 posted on
05/20/2018 1:57:36 PM PDT by
VanDeKoik
To: sodpoodle
The Constitution wasn’t written in Spanish or German.
6 posted on
05/20/2018 1:58:50 PM PDT by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: sodpoodle
Had a visiting lecturer from Australia tell us, among other things, that Americans do not speak English. The example he gave (sternly) was, “We cook dinner, you FIX it.”
7 posted on
05/20/2018 1:59:17 PM PDT by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: sodpoodle
It is if you want to make money or cash your welfare check...
8 posted on
05/20/2018 2:00:56 PM PDT by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
To: sodpoodle
“...Be able to read, write, and speak basic English...”
I know it’s silly to expect our government to obey their own rules and regulations, but the above is one of the requirements for U.S. citizenship....
Seems to me that, by this law, we declare English as the official American language...
9 posted on
05/20/2018 2:04:55 PM PDT by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-history
What are the origins of the English Language?
The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English. The earliest period begins with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D., though no records of their language survive from before the seventh century, and it continues until the end of the eleventh century or a bit later. By that time Latin, Old Norse (the language of the Viking invaders), and especially the Anglo-Norman French of the dominant class after the Norman Conquest in 1066 had begun to have a substantial impact on the lexicon, and the well-developed inflectional system that typifies the grammar of Old English had begun to break down.
10 posted on
05/20/2018 2:08:31 PM PDT by
sodpoodle
(Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
To: sodpoodle
It seems to me that learning to speak English has been one of the talking points for the pro-legalization politicians, in addition to paying fines and back taxes.
I can close my eyes and almost hear the words coming out of phony Rubio’s mouth: “...learn to speak English...”
13 posted on
05/20/2018 2:13:04 PM PDT by
map
To: sodpoodle
Every state that still can should make English its official language.
To: sodpoodle
Theodore Roosevelts ideas on immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the persons becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isnt an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
KEEP THIS MOVING!
15 posted on
05/20/2018 2:15:55 PM PDT by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
To: sodpoodle
Theodore Roosevelts ideas on immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the persons becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isnt an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen needs to read this!
KEEP THIS MOVING!
16 posted on
05/20/2018 2:15:55 PM PDT by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
To: sodpoodle
Why is this article written in English?
17 posted on
05/20/2018 2:16:50 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: sodpoodle
I just love getting lectures from a guy named Harmeet about what our language should be.
To: sodpoodle
Anybody want to buy Harmeet Kaur a ticket back home?
20 posted on
05/20/2018 2:20:28 PM PDT by
Pelham
(California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
To: sodpoodle
Official languages are governmental masturbation. Completely pointless and stupid. People are going to communicate how they communicate, and business will be done in the language it needs to be done in.
21 posted on
05/20/2018 2:21:09 PM PDT by
discostu
(It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
To: sodpoodle
This needs to be rectified. The founding documents are in English, therefore English must be the official language.
28 posted on
05/20/2018 2:30:30 PM PDT by
Trod Upon
(Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
To: sodpoodle
actually, German was a very popular language in early America, and indeed was the second-most spoken language until after WW1
30 posted on
05/20/2018 2:31:12 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: sodpoodle
no more printing ANY govt texts in anything but English...
37 posted on
05/20/2018 2:54:46 PM PDT by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: sodpoodle
And 1st amendment says he can comment, even yell and scream about it.
39 posted on
05/20/2018 3:08:56 PM PDT by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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