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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 436594" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Baba,</p><p> </p><p>Just realizing the democrats and the republicans is one party is a major step. </p><p> </p><p>You mentioned the border which I agree as well but also the issue of the language. Since our earliest of days, for the most part we've been mainly an english speaking people. Sure there have been areas of german speaking for example and in the upper midwest lots of folks from the Norwegian areas of Europe but in the public sphere, english has been the dominate language. I'm not to comfortable with making english the absolute national language although I appreciate the cause why but instead of this approach I'd rather eliminate all the extra efforts being made in the public sphere to accommodate for other languages. No need for new law, just stop all the extra BS we are doing now. Stop the language gov't intervention if you will! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p><p> </p><p>In the public sphere it's english and just deall with it. Private companies who for example choose to include bi-lingual instructions for their products are free to do so for the benefit of themselves in relation to customers but there is no public law requiring such. In other words, no private person or private entity is ever forced to accommadate other language concerns by public organizations, gov't, etc. If you are only concerned with dealing in english then you should be completely free to do such. If you come from elsewhere and want to deal in the public sphere, then learn the language on which the public sphere operates. Otherwise suffer the ramifications or go back from which you came. It's not the place of gov't IMO to mandate language but at the same time it's not the place of gov't to mandate I pay taxes to accommadate people who refuse to assimulate themselves into the local language of the public sphere.</p><p> </p><p>I read a piece earlier today about the abuse of language but it's not in the framework you spoke of but I found it interesting none the less.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/war-on-terror-bush-language" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><strong>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/war-on-terror-bush-language</strong></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 436594, member: 2189"] Baba, Just realizing the democrats and the republicans is one party is a major step. You mentioned the border which I agree as well but also the issue of the language. Since our earliest of days, for the most part we've been mainly an english speaking people. Sure there have been areas of german speaking for example and in the upper midwest lots of folks from the Norwegian areas of Europe but in the public sphere, english has been the dominate language. I'm not to comfortable with making english the absolute national language although I appreciate the cause why but instead of this approach I'd rather eliminate all the extra efforts being made in the public sphere to accommodate for other languages. No need for new law, just stop all the extra BS we are doing now. Stop the language gov't intervention if you will! :happy-very: In the public sphere it's english and just deall with it. Private companies who for example choose to include bi-lingual instructions for their products are free to do so for the benefit of themselves in relation to customers but there is no public law requiring such. In other words, no private person or private entity is ever forced to accommadate other language concerns by public organizations, gov't, etc. If you are only concerned with dealing in english then you should be completely free to do such. If you come from elsewhere and want to deal in the public sphere, then learn the language on which the public sphere operates. Otherwise suffer the ramifications or go back from which you came. It's not the place of gov't IMO to mandate language but at the same time it's not the place of gov't to mandate I pay taxes to accommadate people who refuse to assimulate themselves into the local language of the public sphere. I read a piece earlier today about the abuse of language but it's not in the framework you spoke of but I found it interesting none the less. [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/war-on-terror-bush-language"][COLOR=red][B]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/war-on-terror-bush-language[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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