Here is a question for everyone
I would like answers please. Should English be the official language of the United States?
posted by Discipulus @ 3:53 PM
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Yes, because until our educational system wakes up and begins introducing foreign languages at the proper age (7-8 yrs of age, preferably earlier), American children will remain unilingual ignorant individuals. Also, seeing that there are many languages represented by the diverse populous that is the United States, it would be difficult to merely add one or two additional national languages without angering or alienating significant portions of the citizenry.
- Lynn
at the moment, there is no official language and while I agree that the US needs to become multilingual, making English the official language will not help that.
Josh
I'm all for it. (Josh and I have been talking about this and related topics for a while now--bad idea for a polisci major and a math major to do that.)
Josh told me that english isn't the official language, actually--I had thought it was. I see two solutions. Either:
A) Leave the country as it is, without an official language. You must then provide for all dealings between citizens (and prospective citizens) and the government in any langauge the citizen (or prospective citizen) requests. This would be required, as it would be the right of the individual to communicate with the government (officially and unofficially) however he or she chooses.
OR
B) Make english (or another language, or some combination of languages--my personal opinion is that english alone would be the most effective while still being fair) the official language. All citizens of the country are already required to learn english: the language is taught in the school system, and school is mandatory. In addition, english already serves unofficially as the official state language. So the only major change would be forcing prospective citizens to learn english.
Personally, I'm all for the second option.
And granted, this would never work in the real world. I know. Doesn't stop me from wishing it would.
The official language should be the language of R'lyeh. It'd make things so much more convenient when the Old Ones arise and devour us all.
I'm with Brandon.
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