Arnold Swarchenegger advocated having English as our official language

[Dis]

I heard this on the radio- on a CBS radio report. I can't find any info to back this up. Though he did back a proposition to restrict illegal immigrant access to social services.

But they were really painting Arnold as a right-winger.

But is it so wrong to have English as our national language? Not that it makes any difference. We don't really need a national official language. We've gotten by just fine for the last 200 + years.

[Frozzy]

Boo hoo hoo.

You are speaking English. Bush is speaking English. Hell, even the Latinos are speaking English.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Frozzy
Bush is speaking English.

I'll resist. For now

Anyway, there should be NO official language.

[The Mad Monk]

I disagree.

[JohnT]

This is one of those non-issue issues that people love dragging out every few years - to me, it's a PC way of saying "I don't like the Hispanic hordes" without sounding like a racist/bigot.

[yavoon]

maybe its not so inane. in 40 years the hispanics will be the majority. they could vote through spanish as the official language!

[JohnT]

Not true. According to the census bureau, using the middle series projections, on July 1st, 2100 there will be 190,000,000 people of Hispanic origin, 230,000,000 Caucasians, 74,000,000 Blacks, 4,000,000 Native Americans, and 71,000,000 Asians living in the US.

http://www.census.gov/population/projections/nation/detail/d2091_00.pdf

[yavoon]

Originally posted by JohnT
Not true. According to the census bureau, using the middle series projections, on July 1st, 2100 there will be 190,000,000 people of Hispanic origin, 230,000,000 Caucasians, 74,000,000 Blacks, 4,000,000 Native Americans, and 71,000,000 Asians living in the US.

http://www.census.gov/population/pro...l/d2091_00.pdf

it was tongue in cheek neway. holy crap thats a lot of ppl. I hope all our new cities come up in deserts.

[Buck Birdseed]

I se ya to Arnie's Proposeeshon, anda ze kondeeshon it is english wizz ein Oooostrien Ahksent.

[Urban Ranger]

He's in a hurry to lose some votes

[alva]

So, is he now going to learn english himself too ?

[Gangerolf]

Yes I think it should. But maybe some states with a large Spanish speaking population (New Mexico?) could be bilingual.

But then again

Not that it makes any difference. We don't really need a national official language. We've gotten by just fine for the last 200 + years.

[Whaleboy]

German for the fourth Reich!!

[Harovan]

Well, Arnie wouldn't be the first Austrian populist, would he?

Diss, without wanting to overly criticize you, but why can seemingly no one American spell Arnold Schwarzenegger correct? I know that his last name has a Germanic touch, which is not "usual" there, and you try to transcript it phonetically, but it's hard to understand though. If we spelled anglophone names in our idiom, your top politicians would be these:

Dschordsch Dabbljuh Busch
Ritschart Tschieny
Kollin Pauel
Donald Rammsfeld
Kondolisa Reis

[alva]

Sounds more correct to me