enter one furious journalist
May. 19th, 2006 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944How dare they?
I've just heard via the BBC that the US Congress is attempting to pass a legislation amending the constitution so that English would become the official language of the United States.
What the *colorful phrases in several languages* do they think they're doing? The answer would probably be some long-winded speech heavy on the rhetoric and involving words like "fitting in" and "should be thankful", unless I miss my guess... or my more than slightly satirical view of the right wing.
Have they not taken one nanosecond to realize that this proposal flies in the face of everything from the Civil Rights Act to the concept of the open, nonjudgmental society we're supposedly promoting around the world? Emphasis on supposedly. And don't even get me started on the imposition of an official language inflaming tensions between social groups, to say nothing of international relations.
This makes the idea of our promoting democracy here there and everywhere that much more laughable... granted that isn't hard to do to begin with. So it's another case of do as I say, not as I do, is it? God, what am I still doing in this bloody country?
and this coming down from a right-leaning Congress lead by a president who can barely master his choice for "official" languages. Nucular indeed.
Todos los ciudadanos educados y creen que los libertidades civiles y derechos humanos deben continuar, levantanse y hacen los politicos oirlos!
Take *that* to your capital hill and smoke it.
I've just heard via the BBC that the US Congress is attempting to pass a legislation amending the constitution so that English would become the official language of the United States.
What the *colorful phrases in several languages* do they think they're doing? The answer would probably be some long-winded speech heavy on the rhetoric and involving words like "fitting in" and "should be thankful", unless I miss my guess... or my more than slightly satirical view of the right wing.
Have they not taken one nanosecond to realize that this proposal flies in the face of everything from the Civil Rights Act to the concept of the open, nonjudgmental society we're supposedly promoting around the world? Emphasis on supposedly. And don't even get me started on the imposition of an official language inflaming tensions between social groups, to say nothing of international relations.
This makes the idea of our promoting democracy here there and everywhere that much more laughable... granted that isn't hard to do to begin with. So it's another case of do as I say, not as I do, is it? God, what am I still doing in this bloody country?
and this coming down from a right-leaning Congress lead by a president who can barely master his choice for "official" languages. Nucular indeed.
Todos los ciudadanos educados y creen que los libertidades civiles y derechos humanos deben continuar, levantanse y hacen los politicos oirlos!
Take *that* to your capital hill and smoke it.
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Date: 2006-05-19 03:17 pm (UTC)I was pointing out to you that nowhere in there does it state they will police the languages you speak at home. At no point are they saying we're going to go into your home and make sure you are speaking English. I wasn't disputing the fact that English is already the predominant language in most official documents. But there are still publications, forms, and other documents that are printed in other languages, usually Spanish.
So again, what was the point of your comment back? Maybe you should use smaller words, English isn't _my_ first language.
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Date: 2006-05-19 03:29 pm (UTC)And I'm done. If you can't debate without getting snarky, I have no use for you. Obviously I hit a nerve with my wondering about English being spoken in homes, but as you've admirably proven that as of now, they won't worry about that, I have no more to say. Congratulations, you won!
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Date: 2006-05-19 05:14 pm (UTC)If you thought I was being snark, I'm sorry? I guess? English is not my first language, though I am now fluent in it, and thought maybe your out of field response actually was relevant to what I had cut/pasted from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/langleg.htm and I, in my non-native speaking state, completely missed the point.