They Should Have Called it an Irony Snare

Yes, that's the United States, allright. We're always out to put Brown people down, whereever we can find them.

We should change our national symbol from the bald eagle to the Rug Doctor...
"Steaming mad at Brown people."

Don't be fooled by the significant administration roles played by Browns, including Alberto Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice...rest assured that Bush's pet names for them are "Token Brown #1", "Token Brown #2", etc.

Double post. F Gore.

[Edited on May 22, 2006 10:26AM]

I thought English was the 'official' language of the United States; or is it simply the defacto language because there is no 'official' language?
However, as someone who study linguistics, and multiple languages, I do believe it is necessary for a modern nation-state to have a single official language for ease of commerce, as well as official government postings. Now whether this language be English or Spanish in the case of the United States, well honestly I say neither. English is generally regarded as the hardest language to be learned as a second language. This is due to the fact that English is linguistically descended from to very different linguistic families, germanic, and latinate. English began as a germanic language and was taken to England by the germanic Angles and Saxons. This is where most of our most basic grammar and linguisitic idioms come from. Ever wonder about the old 'never end a sentence with a preposition' (as I just did in the previous one) yet everyone seems to do it when speaking? That's because in germanic languages these are seperable-prefix verbs, and perfectly normal and grammatically correct. However when the Normans invaded England in 1066, the French language began to exert influence on the Englich language, and such grammatical usage is improper in latinate languages. So you see English has two very different main influences, not to mention minor influences from Celtic languages and Greek.
Spanish on the other hand, while preserving mainly a latinate influence does suffer from mind boggling complexities at the more advanced levels (I gave up trying to keep all the grammatical tenses strait when we got to the subjunctive).
So what language should we be using? I really don't know, I still haven't found that 'perfect language' yet. I can say that the best and most phoenetically accurate writing system I've seen so far is Korean.

It's the language the majority of Americans understand the best. We have no official language as a nation. (Though apparently something like half the states have English or English and another language as official languages.)

Ah, see there's a legal loophole. If individual states have official languages, then by precedent, it falls to the states to set standards regarding language and usage. If this measure passes, then theoretically it could be struct down on the grounds of unconstutionality.

'Anglo' would be a better description of what Americans commonly speak. Sort of like English but not quite.

No Anglo would seem to indicate a more ancient dialect, such as 'Anglo-Saxon'.
What a lot of US citizens would answer when asked what language they speak, "I speak American!"

There is no constitutional argument here. That states do it (designate an official language) doesn't mean that the feds can't also.

Having English as an official language does not coincide with the American image of "the pioneer"; We Need Esperanto.

It's about damned time. Cultural diversity is great but compartmentalizing the nation isn't. Without some agreed upon language for communication there's no way for us to SHARE our culture with one another.

Actually, in a technical sense, it does mean that. Unless a Constitutional ammendment is passed to state otherwise, all powers not expressly given to the Feds in the Constitution are reserved solely for the states. There are plenty of instances where the Feds have gotten around this before, but this is at least how it is supposed to work.

i disagree with the "brown people" remark. USA has slaughtered white people in WWii by the thousand. white countries slaughter all sorts of people, the "brown people" remark is provocative without being useful. A lot of white countries have, only recently in many cases, become liberal democracies that do not tend to go to war with each other. the cold war threatened nuclear distruction of the USSR (and pretty much everywhere else) which was not a brown people place". Seeing the world as the remark suggests has in my opinion become preducial and fatuous

Is it irony or sarcasm that Americans aren't good at?

Allegedly.

i agree but the vast majority of humanity is not white and the "white battles" of the early / mid 20th century have more or less been settled (at leat for the time being). There are lots of "brown people" heading for america as we speak and to many of them it represents hope, they are fleeing oppression. i do not believe the white/non white way of looking at things is accurate or adequate anymore

Liebe Government, Das Bumsen schließen!

¡Estimado Government, cerró la cogida para arriba!

Cher Government, a fermé la baise !

Caro Government, ha chiuso la scopata in su!

Caro Governo, fechou a foda acima!

عزيزي الحكومه اغلقت حتي فوك!

親愛なるGovernmentは、性交を締めた!

친애하는 Government는, 성교를 닫았다!

亲爱的政府,关闭了他妈的!

I can't say it more clearly than that.
Hat tip Google Translate.

[Edited on May 22, 2006 by Frank]