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official language of the United States of America
Dec 15, 2013 08:46:13 #
Since it's inception as a Country, the language of these United States has been English! If you spoke another when you came here, you were required to learn English. What language you speak in the privacy of your home is your business, but the language you speak in public must be English! All written forms and publications must be in English, and no other language. If you can not become proficient in both reading and writing English, then return to where you came from. For those who absolutely cannot learn written English, then any and all forms and publications printed in Spanish or any other language other than English would be printed in the requested language for a fee to be paid in advance of receiving a copy for a sum of not less than $25.00 per printed page. For those printed on both sides the fee would be not less than $50.00 per sheet. Each form must be filled out in public with at least one witness to the act. Now let's stand by for the howls of outrage from those affected. In English only, please
Dec 15, 2013 08:50:18 #
catpaw
Loc: Bakersfield, California
retbee wrote:
Since it's inception as a Country, the language of... (show quote)
What if the person can't speak English and doesn't have $25 or $50 but is required by law to fill out a particular form?
Dec 15, 2013 09:01:59 #
Dec 15, 2013 09:27:19 #
catpaw
Loc: Bakersfield, California
retbee wrote:
Go back where they came from. See the beginning benefit for the illegal alien problem?
Sorry. Sometimes I'm a little slow. Once upon a time black citizens could not vote if they couldn't pass a literacy test. That's since been ruled unconstitutional. What beginning benefit are you talking about? What problem? Please explain it to me like I'm stupid.
Dec 15, 2013 10:10:01 #
Nonsense. :. . .the language you speak in public must be English" ? Ha-ha-ha. In my part of the country, official forms come in at least two languages, English and Spanish, almost always, and sometimes in three -- adding Chinese. You must be trolling.
retbee wrote:
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Dec 15, 2013 11:05:50 #
Dec 15, 2013 11:08:37 #
Trolling for what? Your part of the country (wherever that is) is a major part of the reason our beloved country is going to the dogs in a handbasket.
Dec 15, 2013 11:16:24 #
There's a ring of truth there since the unofficial language is money.
retbee wrote:
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Dec 15, 2013 12:34:59 #
In Nebraska, the official language, as stated in the Nebraska constitution, is English. But the state requires you to press 1 for English. Upon talking to the state commissioner, he says to roll with it. Is that not breaking the law? For a state that is against illegal immigration, they are not doing much to stop it.
Dec 15, 2013 12:43:29 #
Unfortunately your state is only one among more who's elected officials don't have any stones. In Wisconsin they even print state forms in Arabic! Follow the upcoming rhetoric in all the campaign speeches (lies?) for the 2014 elections and pick out who you think will be the best candidate for each office and vote for him/her.
Dec 15, 2013 12:46:28 #
retbee wrote:
Go back where they came from. See the beginning benefit for the illegal alien problem?
Congress has had many bills come before them to make english our official language but never would do it. I have been in many countrys and all have a national language, but the most powerful country has none. I lived in Mexico for two years and did not speak spanish, but if you need it you will learn fast. The worst thing is let someone translate for you all the time, then you will never learn and that is what we are going here in our schools. In LA schools they have around 90 translator for the kids, so they do learn to speak english very fast, and kids do learn a new language fast. We are doing them a big injustice.
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Dec 15, 2013 12:51:47 #
Yes it is and the last time I looked it was in English.
UncleJesse wrote:
There's a ring of truth there since the unofficial language is money.
Dec 15, 2013 12:51:49 #
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Loc: California
catpaw wrote:
What if the person can't speak English and doesn't have $25 or $50 but is required by law to fill out a particular form?
then HE-SHE CAN BEG!!!!
Dec 15, 2013 13:07:43 #
catpaw
Loc: Bakersfield, California
Any immigrant, legal or otherwise, knows darn well if they're going to assimilate, they have to learn English. Most do.
Any court will not accept a form or enforce a contract that is written in a language the signer is not fluent with. Requiring him to pay for a translated form or contract is illegal.
States not enforcing English only "laws" is not a matter of not having balls; it's a matter of legality.
Any court will not accept a form or enforce a contract that is written in a language the signer is not fluent with. Requiring him to pay for a translated form or contract is illegal.
States not enforcing English only "laws" is not a matter of not having balls; it's a matter of legality.
Dec 15, 2013 13:16:00 #
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