English as the official language of the USA

[TalonX]

I was reading a hue and cry to make english the official language of the USA.   The assertion was that we needed to vote now, while enough anglos are left to win this vote.  They further assert that the only reason we won't make this vote is the liberals who hate America will not vote to make english the official language.

Why should we make english the official language?  My initial reaction is because english speakers tamed this land, civilized it, and run it.

It made me think....................

Do you think there were smoke signals in the 1800's urging the "readers" to make the various native american languages official.......?

Makes you think, or it should.  The new take over is here.

[Curval]

Originally posted by TalonX
Do you think there were smoke signals in the 1800's urging the "readers" to make the various native american languages official.......?

Makes you think, or it should.  The new take over is here.

I think the red-skins were too busy sending smoke signals like "Cavalry coming RUN" to worry about official languages.

[lasersailor184]

Making english the official language would be a superficial change, because you cannot control what language private companies print their products in.

[Vulcan]

You need to learn how to spell it properly before making it your official language.

[firbal]

At the start of the country, the founding fathers debated weather(?) the country should speck english or french. And the rest is history.

[storch]

if you consider that the southern part of the US and all of california was discovered and largely settled by the spanish then your premis is off.  

while I agree that english should be the language of america my reason for doing so is a matter of practicality not blind xenophobia.  

english is the language of commerce and all successful and ambitious people the world over dominate the language.  sometimes even better than some of the native born.  

with regard to the changing demographics I have been informing racist and xenophobic anglos here for the last thirty years that when the last bigot wants to clear out of miami he should see me for gas money.  be sure of this, we will out work and out populate you guys so you should be nice to us.  we will own you. all your cities will belong to us.

[storch]

Originally posted by firbal
At the start of the country, the founding fathers debated weather(?) the country should speck english or french. And the rest is history.

do you mean whether?

[C(Sea)Bass]

he was trying to say "... they debated the weather, and whether to speak english or chineese..."

[Mark Luper]

Originally posted by firbal
At the start of the country, the founding fathers debated weather(?) the country should speck english or french. And the rest is history.

I could be wrong but due to the high number of German immigrants in the US at the time I beleive the two languages discussed as the official language were German and English.

Mark

[Rino]

Originally posted by storch
if you consider that the southern part of the US and all of california was discovered and largely settled by the spanish then your premis is off.  

while I agree that english should be the language of america my reason for doing so is a matter of practicality not blind xenophobia.  

english is the language of commerce and all successful and ambitious people the world over dominate the language.  sometimes even better than some of the native born.  

with regard to the changing demographics I have been informing racist and xenophobic anglos here for the last thirty years that when the last bigot wants to clear out of miami he should see me for gas money.  be sure of this, we will out work and out populate you guys so you should be nice to us.  we will own you. all your cities will belong to us.

Screw Florida..you can keep it.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by storch
if you consider that the southern part of the US and all of california was discovered and largely settled by the spanish then your premis is off.  

The treaty ceding California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada and parts of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming was signed in Feb, 1848.

In January 1848 California's non-Indian population numbered about 14,000.

By the end of 1849, it had risen to nearly 100,000, and it continued to swell to some 250,000 by 1852.

14,000 Mexicans settled in all of California.

[Swoop]

Originally posted by firbal
At the start of the country, the founding fathers debated weather(?) the country should speck english or french. And the rest is history.

I thought the choice in 1776 was between English and Dutch?


Believe me, you made the right choice.

[bozon]

Originally posted by firbal
At the start of the country, the founding fathers debated weather(?) the country should speck english or french. And the rest is history.

Which language did they debate in?

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by bozon
Which language did they debate in?

Since Patrick Henry and John Adams didn't speak French, I'm pretty sure that at least they argued in English.

[storch]

Originally posted by Rino
Screw Florida..you can keep it.

noted but we're moving north, rapidly.  by we I mean we cubans.  I'm not even considering our proliferate mexican and central american cousins.  look up the number of cubans which now reside in north carolina.  with the burgeoning puerto rican, dominican and cuban populations in the northeast it is well beyond florida.  all your cities belong to us.