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Sly · 11-23-2006, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Simon IA Cash

It's officially monolingual. Only one American official language, legally. Every country has people speaking other languages, obviously. Well, maybe not North Korea. Anyway, you'll have mini-communities of various kinds, always. But signs in the US are predominantly (almost exclusively) in English, and all legal and political processes are in English. You don't really have to learn another language, but I bet those people speaking the other languages know some English.

Most countries have one official language. I fail to see what you're getting at here.

We don't have legal proceedings in Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, the million different dialects of Chinese, Japanese, etc? Who cares? I sure as hell don't want taxes going towards leaflets in 20 different languages when everyone can easily learn one universal language to easily communicate with one another.

When I go to Central America I don't expect people to know English, I do my best to figure out Spanish.

I read the other day that the EU spends over one billion Euro annually to translate all documents in every language the EU countries use. Thats a lot of money. The UN has 6 "official" languages but predominantly uses English and French. Can you imagine how much money it would cost to translate documents into the hundreds of various languages and dialects the member states use? Holy cow.

There is really no practical reason to have everything written in 2 languages, just like there is no practical reason to have 2 different currencies within the same stabilized countries. Next you'll say we should start accepting pesos, lol.