posted on September 14, 2001 10:41:36 PM new
My question is 'would a single, legal, on the books, specified language, for Our Country help us as a unified group of diverse people with so many different ways of living and languages help to unify this Country as one for the benifit of all.' We, as a Country 'Do Not have a single, on the books, legal language to conduct our business, laws, schools, commerce, ect.' The idea has been brought up several times in the past and received a negative from most individual communities. ( to say ethnic/national ) I for one belive that WE need a legal specific form of communication that we ALL have to LEARN ( to Live as a unit called a Country ) and understand to make OUR COMMERCE and WAY OF LIVING be benifical to US as a Country, the United States of America.( talk your own and keep you heritage alive, but not at the destruction, disruption, of this Country as WE ALL LIVE ) I live in California and when I get my voting ballet or go to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles for a driving license I find that the language is in Vietnamess, Loas, Spanish, ect. for the exact same laws and ideas; a hugh amount of money and 'compassion' spent for repition for what is one country, and something that WE ( as Americans, be Natural Born or Naturlized ) should knowe. ( go to somewhere else 'another country' and understand what their opinion is about their Country, Language, Laws, Religion, History, Ect ) IN MY OPINION, this is a Total Waste of time and money and care for other countries controling your life by Language control, and an effront to your Efort and work and belife to have a reasonable life BY LAW and Concience of OUR FOREFATHERS of the United States of America. If we as a unit of people that live as a group of Diverse PEOPLE of History, Belife, Religon, can not have a SINGLE way for LEGAL LANGUAGE on the books for OUR legal communification with ourselves and others I think that there is a great gap in OUR tomorrow. I vote for American English as the formal BY LAW, ON THE BOOKS LEGAL Language for the United States Of America. If disagreement is about, lets spend our hard earned money for a formal election to satisfy the question.
posted on September 14, 2001 11:08:25 PM new
" spent for repition for what is one country, and something that WE ( )as americans, be Natural Born or Naturlized ) should knowe".
Fine with me, but what language would you propose be used?
posted on September 14, 2001 11:46:32 PM new
I vote for Spanish...and against Chinese (to difficult to learn!)
I remember being in China in a resturant...our guide told us how to ask for a fork (if we were unable to use chopsticks)..seems the word had to be said with a certain inflection. (the sing-song had to be done a certain way)...if we did it wrong we could/would be insulting the server.
Yes, we DO need one language and it should be Spanish
posted on September 15, 2001 12:27:12 AM new
I vote for Turkish. I've already got a head start on that one...and ya gotta love a language that can put a whole sentence into one word.
posted on September 15, 2001 01:08:47 AM new
I say Yiddish...After all, it contains: German, French, Spanish (well Ladino), Russian, Polish, English, and a smattering of the language spoken from all the countries where Jews have lived......all in one neat little package...But be prepared to use your arms and hands a lot!...Clear away from people, as it is easy to back-hand someone in the heat of communication...Carry insurance
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posted on September 15, 2001 01:20:12 AM new
On second thought, I propose Hawaiian: I understand is does not have verb declinations.... Keep it simple.
Edited to say: I see some of us are still not sleeping well...
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