President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English as the official language of the United States, according to the White House.
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English, according to a fact sheet about the impending order.
Designating English as the national language “promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement,” according to the White House.
Within hours of Trump’s inauguration last month, the new administration took down the Spanish language version of the official White House website.
Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion and frustration at the change. The White House said at the time it was committed to bringing the Spanish language version of the website back online. As of Friday, it was still not restored.
I assumed russian
The proper one would be Latin
Everyone is a product of their time. That’s why you have Trump.
So you all going to start spelling colour properly?
Since we’re adding letters to words that aren’t even pronounced and serve no purpose why not put an E at the end as well?
In scarlet towne where I was borne
Remind me again how you pronounce “herbs” or “aunt” over there
You’re right, those should also be changed. Let’s get rid of the letter C too while we’re at it. It makes the K sound or the S sound, we already have letters that do that, it’s useless.
As great as reinventing the English language sounds, it’s not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way, and making small regional changes (like the differences in the spelling of some words) is just confusing and annoying to everyone who isn’t familiar with it or with English in general.
With your example of the letter C, you’d need some alternative way to write the “ch” sound (which is sometimes pronounced as “sh”, depending on it’s usage) if you got rid of that letter.
It’s an ugly, messy, and confusing language. Popularising arbitrary changes like the ones Webster included in his dictionary (centre vs center, for example) serves no benefit to anyone - it just creates yet another variant of an ugly, messy, and confusing language.
As great as reinventing the English language sounds, [it’s not realistically going to happen in a meaningful way
I agree it would be difficult at first. There is precedent for it though, we’ve already gotten rid of thorn and ethel in the last few hundred years.
With your example of the letter C, you’d need some alternative way to write the “ch” sound (which is sometimes pronounced as “sh”
I have a plan, we use X. It most commonly makes the KS sound, we already have K and S to handle that. X is already used for the CH sound occasionally, so just lean into that and make it X’s main role. “Xange the xannel please I hate Foks News”
No u It’s color
Id have thought he would choose a language he had a better grasp of
What, Russian?
I’ve met very few Russians fitting the criterion, and Trump doesn’t seem the type.
What about the damn grocery store prices?
They are already in English
If by English you mean Arabic
A la mierda con eso. Hablaré exclusivamente en Español como protesta.
Unfortunately, I think this will catch on as well as today’s protest 🥲
I went to work yesterday, grabbed lunch, stopped on the way home to gas up and do a little shopping, stopped at the pharmacy, got home, opened this app and then found out there was a protest. I honestly had no clue otherwise I could have planned better
Agreed. It’s a foreign concept to me of like a “general boycott”. I think a corporate boycott might be better. Moreover boycotts aren’t usually a single day.
Here’s for hoping he finally learns how to speak it.
Trump’s greatest accomplishment, surpassing the DuoLingo owl in being the most annoying thing to make me want to learn Spanish. Pendejo.
Ahora que puedo conversar un poco en español, es mi método preferido para expresar mi desprecio por personas en público. Por ejemplo, Trump es un llorón pinche guero cagaleche que solo puede poner su pito erecto si Jingping y Putin lo follan como a un pollo en un asador.
ᴵ ʰᵒᵖᵉ ᴵ ˢᵃᶦᵈ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵒʳʳᵉᶜᵗˡʸ.
So the founding fathers chose to NOT have an official language, and orange muffin boy thinks he’s smarter then the founding fathers?
What an idiot
I always thought it was just taken as granted rather than an intentional decision, but I never looked into it. That said, the founders got a whole bunch of shit very wrong, so there’s that.
Maybe don’t put slavers and murderers in a pedestal to behind with? Actually, never mind, I’m sure your founding fathers would be proud of Trump.
Sure they were products of the time period. You had to own land at least to have any kind of power back in the day. They were not perfect but they did have a vision of a government that could work without traditional kings.
They would be pissed about Trump trying to overrun the other branches. I’n the end, they wouldn’t give a fuck about slaves. As long as their land was worked and they survived. They wouldn’t have cared.
English? Sounds too foreign to me.
Why not call the official language American?
And even American was from that Italian Amerigo. Why not call the official language Magaian or Trumpish…?
/s … if needed.
Plains sign language, the first language to be a unifying language of differing people in this area.
Or asl which is the only colonial language to be American
King Krasnov’s English, to ensure it’s differentiated from Queen’s English our friends speak across the pond.
Please no one show Trump this joke… after the Gulf of America shit I’m half convinced he’d actually do it.
Excuse me you mean Murican!?
M’rican
Looks too French! Deport it!
Yeah it’s kinda surprising actually, saying that the official language is Murican is way more up his alley.
If there is a white supremacy angle, they’re obviously taking it.
SMDH at the improved performance Donnie diaper had with Hispanics this cycle, the leopards feasting.
A symbolic move catering to the English-only movement; unity claim feels overstated.
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… creates a pathway for civic engagement
Literally the opposite. Love the doublespeak.
