English as a third language.....
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189838)
Boise, Idaho
7 responses
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
19 Dec 10
Actually it seems sometimes like English isn't the primary language in the US...all the time you hear "please press one for english", packages have everything in at least two different languages and instruction manuals come in so many languages it's laughable. Personally I think everyone in this country should have to speak English and if they don't they should be deported till they learn it. After all I wouldn't move to Mexico, France, Russia or Japan b/c I don't know their language and I wouldn't expect them to change things to suit me.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Dec 10
I have a t-shirt which says "In 1492 Native indians discovered Columbus on their land" I just love it! I get all kinds of comments when I wear it.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
21 Dec 10
I got one that says homeland secuity since 1492 . with pics of the native indians that liived by the border on it Geronimo is one of them . Not one person has said anything about it at al! thought I would get lots of comments the mex that see it aint saying a word.
My son go it in El Paso and broughtit to me.
HE got one too!
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
18 Dec 10
Had the Moors been just a little more successful in their conquest of Spain, they might have also conquered much of Europe and we might all now be speaking Arabic, writing right to left and praying to Allah five times a day.
Had the Saxons not been quite so assiduous in their invasions into Britain (or the Roman Empire less divided at just that critical point in time), we might be speaking something like Welsh or, perhaps, a version of Latin, as the French, Italians, Spanish and Rumanians (to mention a few) do today.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Dec 10
I have to agree. I think your first one makes the most sense. Although the Roman Empire had alot of invasions and makes me wonder.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
18 Dec 10
okay once more just had my= response wiped outI am glad English won out as it almost went to German here in the US. lol. Irish might have been fun. my maiden name is Clark and my Clarks gr gr grandfather came from Derry Ireland to some place in Kentucky and migrated there in 1790's
but I like English as I can at least speak it. lol.1 person likes this
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Dec 10
My great grandmother came from Illinois in the early 1800's. Not sure where in Ireland we are from but somewhere. I like English too. Probably would have been Gaelich or something.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
19 Dec 10
Actually I had forgotten the impact of the Germans. We have always had enclaves of
various nationalities. I live near a community that is strongly Swedish. My husband grew up in an area that is predominantly populated by Finlanders. There is even a familhy story about the first member of his family getting off the boat, and walking the width of the United States, then settling in the UP of Michigan because it looked the most like home.
@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
28 Dec 10
The Native Canadian were the first to settle here(I think), so I would probably be speaking the native language. There is a First Nation's Reservation a few miles from my house...a few still speak the Maliseet language.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
18 Dec 10
I think it could have become a three way split, English, French and Spanish.
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