Why English?
Author – Richard Lederer
Crazy English
English is the official language spoken by every international pilot and air traffic controller in the world. Not Spanish, Russian, French, Italian or German, English.
Almost every country has established an official language. Spain and Mexico have Spanish as their official languages. Germany has German, and Sweden names Swedish as their official language. Brazil uses Portuguese as their official language. Both English and French are Canada's official languages. This means that to be a citizen of Canada you must be able to fluently speak one of the two languages.
What does the Untied States have? Nothing. Zip. Nada.
What is wrong with our leaders? Have they no courage? The cost to print everything our government does into many different languages is in the billions of dollars. In whatever language you want a document, we have it, and for what reason, because we do not have an official language.
If you went to Mexico and asked for an English brochure, they would laugh at you. Try Germany and see if you can get something in Spanish or Italian or even English and you will come up against a brick wall.
It is time we make English our Official National language and stop printing everything in every foreign language and require immigrants to learn the language if they want to be live here, be a citizen or even receive a working visa.
It is estimated that by 2045, the Hispanic population of the U.S.A. will be the majority and you can bet that Hispanics will vote to make Spanish our Official National language.
Time to take a stand and contact every elected government official and let your voice be heard.
1 Comments:
I agree Brian! There are signs of the erosion of our language all around us. It has to stop before kids will have to spend all their time in school learning 2 or 3 other languages just to be able to communicate
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