Voting on making English the official US language (Was: "Hm...")

[Cody Carey]

An official language means nothing. People will still speak Chinese or Russian when they want to. Nobody is going to abandon the language of their homeland because the gov't will only listen if they speak English (which I'm sure won't be the case). If, as most of us are assuming, it forced everybody to learn English, then it would close racial gaps. It would mean that I could go anywhere in the U.S. and talk to anybody. That would be a wonderful thing. Look at the tower of Babel, when everybody could speak the same language... progress was made, but when they all spoke different languages... nothing happened.



One last thought…

If I move the France, I’m going to learn French, and if I move to Germany, I’ll sure as heck learn German, so why should it be any different for people moving to the U.S.A.?