ENGLISH... The OFFICIAL Language of the US???

UPDATE!!!...............

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate agreed on Thursday to make English the national language of the United States and moments later also adopted a milder alternative calling English the country's "unifying language."
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Will we have, finally, an OFFICIAL language for the US?

Don’t count on it.

The US Senate passed TWO bills yesterday, one to make English the OFFICIAL Language of the US and the other would make English the “National” language of the US.

The difference, as I see it, if it becomes the NATIONAL language nothing much will change. We’ll continue to bumble along with all sorts of mixed up bilingual, and trilingual, and multilingual languages as we do today. If, however, English is made the OFFICIAL language of the US… that will have a huge impact on businesses and government… especially in areas like my state where we have the 4th largest population of illegal immigrants in the nation.

The cost of printing government forms, for instance in two or more languages is astronomical. That’s money the taxpayers of this state could save. And that is just the beginning! Signage would change, also. Even menus in restaurants would change.

Immigrants moving legally, or illegally, into the US would HAVE to learn our official language just to get along. I like that. If they don’t know the language, how the heck are they supposed to assimilate?

The US House also passed a bill yesterday to make English the Official Language of the US.

Now all these bills go to a committee to iron out the differences. We can only guess at what will be produced by that committee.

I have, as long as I can remember, advocated English be made the OFFICIAL language of the US. We don’t have one… never have had one. It’s about time.

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