English: 21st Century Language of the United States of America

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Polyglots, Criers of Diversity, Champions of Globalization - and Americans

By Michael K. Miller, published Dec 12, 2007
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Jabberwocky, Gobbledygook, Doublespeak? Nay, knave: English.

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. ... We must...learn one language and that language is English. - Theodore Roosevelt

Americans: Where, Who, What, How
Where are the Americans? Who are they? What do they think? What do they want? How can we work together with them? How can we fall in love with them? Raise families? Make communities? Worship with them? Prosper? Pursue Life, Liberty, and Unalienable Rights? How can we make a future together? How will we know - if we can't understand them, or equally destructive and terminal, they can't understand us?

Essential Cornerstone of America
This is not an issue of diversity. This is not an issue of immigration. This is not an issue of "the global economy." This is an issue of the continuous and continuing dilution, minimalization, and erosion of an essential cornerstone of our great nation.

English is THE language of the United States of America. Don't like it, want to call up your ACLU rep, want to lobby against it - maybe stage a protest or demonstrate or march in the streets? Want to huddle up in your self-imposed linguistic ghetto of isolation and separation chanting the purity of your language and immutability of your culture? Get real. Get over it. English has been, is, and will be THE language of the United States of America.

Takeaways
  • English in America is NOT an issue of diversity.
  • English in America is NOT an issue of immigration.
  • English in America IS an issue of an essential cornerstone of our Nation.
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