Official Languages for the US

[DesignFox]

Problem: blind people.

Just thought I (and my blind friend, and my severely vision impaired friend) would throw a spanner in the works.

Not necessarily... maybe, like Helen Keller, the blind can be taught to "feel" the signs....

Would make for quite a touchy feely conversation...but it could work.

[protege]

Would make for quite a touchy feely conversation...but it could work.

You bastard...I nearly sprayed my monitor

BTW, did you know that Helen Keller's favorite color is Chuck Norris?

[AFPheonix]

Chuck Norris endorsed Mike Huckabee. Actually, so did Rick Flair.
I guess he's going for the 18-25 male demographic or something.

[daleduke17]

"Ric" Flair.

My opinion for an official language should be that the USA make an official language so they can be justified in making all govermental paperwork in one language. I honestly don't care if, while walking through Polish Triangle in Chicago, if the whole area is speaking Polish. When the residents of Polish Triangle go into the DMV or the Federal Courthouse, they better be able to speak American-English. Same can be said for any other nationality and language that is based in the United States.

[AFPheonix]

Heh. My bad. I pay little attention to pro wrestlers.

[CancelMyService]

You know, it's funny, I'm about to go home from my week vacation in Orlando and I don't recall seeing one bilingual sign in any store I was in. Every store I was in did happen to have employees who were either native Spanish speakers, or learned Spanish as a second language. Florida was a Spanish colony before becoming a part of the US ater all. I also was able to watch Spanish language TV stations like Univison and Telemundo while I was there. My grasp of the language comes solely from Lucha Libre (mexican wrestling), but Mexican soap operas are a gas no matter if you understand them or not. They're everything they get parodied as on SNL.

Spending all this time in a dual language environment , from what I can best surmise, has had zero effect on my American-ness or my abilty to comminicate in English.

It's almost as if the whole issue was much ado about nothing,