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English? [W:167]

grip

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Should we all as Americans be required to learn English as the national language or?
 
Of course. As has been proven in the US, a country without a common language is a country without a culture. It isn't even a country.
 
Only if you wish to graduate high school. ;)
 
grip said:
Should we all as Americans be required to learn English as the national language or?
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Yes. We are founded on it and are not going to allow other languages to be forced on us.
 
AmericanSpartan said:
Yes. We are founded on it and are not going to allow other languages to be forced on us.
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Someone could try to force French on me but since I already failed it in highschool. I wish I could at least speak Spanish. Such a beautiful Latin language of love.
 
grip said:
Someone could try to force French on me but since I already failed it in highschool. I wish I could at least speak Spanish. Such a beautiful Latin language of love.
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Trust me, it is not, it is a language of hostility and poverty.
 
AmericanSpartan said:
Trust me, it is not, it is a language of hostility and poverty.
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Are you really that uninformed? Italian, Spanish, French and many languages are branches of Latin. They are not hostile or impoverished but rather exotic.
 
a nation needs a common language. this idea that the US can survive being carved up into dozens of ethnic polities and still function as a nation is absurd.
 
QuadpolarNutjob said:
a nation needs a common language. this idea that the US can survive being carved up into dozens of ethnic polities and still function as a nation is absurd.
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Switzerland and Canada prove otherwise.

Additionally, nobody mentioned anything about carving up the nation. The US doesn't have a de facto language. This is fact.
 
AmericanSpartan said:
Trust me, it is not, it is a language of hostility and poverty.
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Oy, watch it mate. I speak it very well because where I live that's what's spoken. And the people are neither particularly poor nor notably hostile.
 
Chagos said:
Oy, watch it mate. I speak it very well because where I live that's what's spoken. And the people are neither particularly poor nor notably hostile.
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Spain has a lower crime rate than the United States, but AmericanSpartan doesn't wish to think.
 
le bouffon said:
Spain has a lower crime rate than the United States, but AmericanSpartan doesn't wish to think.
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I've seriously considered moving to Spain. Lax on cannabis rules, cheap easy living, scenic beauty and wonderful society.
 
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