President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the United States, according to the White House.
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.
Designating English as the national language “promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement,” according to the White House.
Within hours of Trump’s inauguration last month, the new administration took down the Spanish language version of the official White House website.
Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion and frustration at the change. The White House said at the time it was committed to bringing the Spanish language version of the website back online. As of Friday, it was still not restored.
So you all going to start spelling colour properly?
“Kolor”
KDE user, I presume
You may have set off an English war.
Aside though, probably the most fascinating thing about English is that it is a language in constant change. Many other languages don’t change at the rapidity of English. Some, like German, often just adapt the English word for a new thing as a loan word with their characters.
Wyzyyp straight.
Don’t worry, that will be in the Oxford English Dictionary in 5 years or less.
Only if ya pronounce solder right. Prouncing it solder instead of sodder is an attempt to Romanticize English because the island Saxons cant get it through their fucking skulls that they aren’t infact Romans no matter how many Roman arefacts they kleptomaniacly take.
Since we’re adding letters to words that aren’t even pronounced and serve no purpose why not put an E at the end as well?
Remind me again how you pronounce “herbs” or “aunt” over there
You’re right, those should also be changed. Let’s get rid of the letter C too while we’re at it. It makes the K sound or the S sound, we already have letters that do that, it’s useless.
As great as reinventing the English language sounds, it’s not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way, and making small regional changes (like the differences in the spelling of some words) is just confusing and annoying to everyone who isn’t familiar with it or with English in general.
With your example of the letter C, you’d need some alternative way to write the “ch” sound (which is sometimes pronounced as “sh”, depending on it’s usage) if you got rid of that letter.
It’s an ugly, messy, and confusing language. Popularising arbitrary changes like the ones Webster included in his dictionary (centre vs center, for example) serves no benefit to anyone - it just creates yet another variant of an ugly, messy, and confusing language.
As great as reinventing the English language sounds, [it’s not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way
I agree it would be difficult at first. There is precedent for it though, we’ve already gotten rid of thorn and ethel in the last few hundred years.
With your example of the letter C, you’d need some alternative way to write the “ch” sound (which is sometimes pronounced as “sh”
I have a plan, we use X. It most commonly makes the KS sound, we already have K and S to handle that. X is already used for the CH sound occasionally, so just lean into that and make it X’s main role. “Xange the xannel please I hate Foks News”
In scarlet towne where I was borne
No u It’s color
Trump’s greatest accomplishment, surpassing the DuoLingo owl in being the most annoying thing to make me want to learn Spanish. Pendejo.
Ahora que puedo conversar un poco en español, es mi método preferido para expresar mi desprecio por personas en público. Por ejemplo, Trump es un llorón pinche guero cagaleche que solo puede poner su pito erecto si Jingping y Putin lo follan como a un pollo en un asador.
ᴵ ʰᵒᵖᵉ ᴵ ˢᵃᶦᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵒʳʳᵉᶜᵗˡʸ.
What about the damn grocery store prices?
They are already in English
If by English you mean Arabic
A la mierda con eso. Hablaré exclusivamente en Español como protesta.
Unfortunately, I think this will catch on as well as today’s protest 🥲
I went to work yesterday, grabbed lunch, stopped on the way home to gas up and do a little shopping, stopped at the pharmacy, got home, opened this app and then found out there was a protest. I honestly had no clue otherwise I could have planned better
Agreed. It’s a foreign concept to me of like a “general boycott”. I think a corporate boycott might be better. Moreover boycotts aren’t usually a single day.
Id have thought he would choose a language he had a better grasp of
What, Russian?
I’ve met very few Russians fitting the criterion, and Trump doesn’t seem the type.
I assumed russian
Glad this dipshit is focusing on the important things.
I was really getting concerned about the Gulf of Mexico being named the Gulf of Mexico. And the 10 trans people that serve in the military. Those things were really weighing on my mind.
As long as you don’t remember that the transwomen who are being put into a men’s prison. Nope. Nothing to see here.
Here’s for hoping he finally learns how to speak it.
A symbolic move catering to the English-only movement; unity claim feels overstated.
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Everyone is a product of their time. That’s why you have Trump.
Another week of signing delusional royal decrees that may or may not stand up in court. Now off to the golf course to abuse our land in a more physical way.
The proper one would be Latin
I’m confused I thought it already was.
I’ve never fact checked this but IIRC my highschool civics teacher said something like the US made a point not to have an official language
Here’s a current screenshot from USA.gov.
Na, part of being a free country means you should be able to speak whatever language you want and follow whatever religion you wish. Slowly have to squeeze every freedom out of America.
THEN let’s insult the stupid in non-English for our own entertainment! 「吃屎吧蠢普」
