Adding Spanish as a National Language (hell, America)

[MaddLlama]

There may be those among you who support including Spanish in our national language. I for one am dead set against it! We should preserve the sanctity of the English language.

To all the shlemiels, shlemazels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes, shlubs, shmoes, shmucks, nogoodniks, and momzers that are lurking out there in the crowd, I just wanted to say that I, for one, get sentimental when I think about English and its place in our society.

To tell the truth, it makes me so farklempt, I'm fit to plotz. This whole schmeer gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and luftmenschen kvetching about our national language. What chutzpah!

These shmegeges can tout their shlock about the cultural and linguistic diversity of our country and of English itself, but I, for one, am not buying their shtick. It's all so much dreck, as far as I'm concerned. I exhort you all to be menshen about this and stand up to their fardrayte arguments and meshugganah, farshtunkene assertions. It wouldn't be kosher to do anything else.

Remember, when all is said and done, we have English and they've got bubkes! The whole myseh is a pain in the tuchas, so speak English!

[michel]

Originally Posted by MaddLlama

There may be those among you who support including Spanish in our national language. I for one am dead set against it! We should preserve the sanctity of the English language.

To all the shlemiels, shlemazels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes, shlubs, shmoes, shmucks, nogoodniks, and momzers that are lurking out there in the crowd, I just wanted to say that I, for one, get sentimental when I think about English and its place in our society.

To tell the truth, it makes me so farklempt, I'm fit to plotz. This whole schmeer gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and luftmenschen kvetching about our national language. What chutzpah!

These shmegeges can tout their shlock about the cultural and linguistic diversity of our country and of English itself, but I, for one, am not buying their shtick. It's all so much dreck, as far as I'm concerned. I exhort you all to be menshen about this and stand up to their fardrayte arguments and meshugganah, farshtunkene assertions. It wouldn't be kosher to do anything else.

Remember, when all is said and done, we have English and they've got bubkes! The whole myseh is a pain in the tuchas, so speak English!

There's one point you've missed; you speak American English..............not the real Mc Coy.

[nutshell]

Originally Posted by michel

There's one point you've missed; you speak American English..............not the real Mc Coy.

British English is far from the real Mc Coy too. In fact, the real Mc Coy doesn't really exist anymore.

[michel]

Originally Posted by nutshell

British English is far from the real Mc Coy too. In fact, the real Mc Coy doesn't really exist anymore.

You may be right there. My mother always used to say "Never be snooty about English as it is spoken abroad, when taken over there by emigrants, its probably nearer to the real language than ours is now"

Strange thing is, we call a toilet a toilet; I think you guys call it a water closet? which, of course, is the "real" english.

Apart from that, no one now seems to understand how to use apostrophes (SP?? ), and there are weird words cropping up - forgive them for they do not understand- in the English dictionary that would never have 'made it' years ago..........

[ayani]

Originally Posted by MaddLlama

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bwa ha ha!

i get it.

american english owes so, so much to other languages, cultures, and ways of looking at the world.

you might enjoy a book called "spanglish: the making of a new american language". great read.

[Sunstone]

The biggest problem I see with having two national languages is that all of our law is in English. Law is so intimately interwoven with the precise definitions of terms that I imagine it is almost impossible to translate it into another language. Does the Constitution read the same in Spanish as it does in English? I would guess not.

[MaddLlama]

You guys SO did not get the joke. Get Jewscout in here, he'll think it's funny.

[ayani]

i got it, i got it! ((raises hand))