I vote for Cherokee as America's official language. - Tsali, The Native of FF

¬_¬ - Ayşe E.

Or at least teach English in school *LOL* - Rene Wirtz

Morans appear to be fond of signage. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Mavricks say that English is our offical language with no excetions -- got it. - Stephen Mack

I agree. No excetions. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

The thing that gets me about this stuff isn't that these people can't spell... it's that their spelling reveals that they don't even know how to pronounce the words in the first place. - Roger Benningfield from BuddyFeed

Language Nazis almost always have questionable language skills. Funny, and sad. - Kathy Fitch

For the record: surely you meant "not clear on the concept THAT FOLLOWS," rather than "concept of [a] feed." The very same people may very well be clear on the latter, though probably not one of the Friendly variety [http://google.com/search...]. And please don't tell us that all the others here knew exactly what you meant without the missing reference; none of us ever knows what you mean, but we've developed individual methods of dealing with that "nowledge" (and this one is a sample of mine). - ianf ⌘

How strange that everyone except you knew what I was talking about. Res ipsa loquitur. - Steven Perez

I speek english goodly. Speeking english is a rite and a responsability we shuld al take serious. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

my Nglish aint so swell, but i' fluent in valley & Pig Nglish, ;) - chaz2b

everybody understands english if you speak it loudly and slowly enough. - Imabug

Someoone has taken the P. - Nick B.

It would be better to say Make American America's official language :D LOL - Roldano

US, try Turkish :) - Burçak Çubukçu

Extremists are ugly. I'm not crazy about the sentiment, but I understand the emotion behind the knee-jerk reaction. When Chester's grandfather came to this country he may have spoken German, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, perhaps a smattering of French and English. America didn't accommodate his family, why should it be so flexible for yours? - Phil Boiarski

As one can plainly see, this is what happens when one substitutes logic and clear thinking for emotion. - Steven Perez

Interestingly, I know some (generally non-crazy) people who believe that the US Govt, as well as states and localities, make intentional decisions to *prevent* Spanish-speakers from learning English. This keeps them in the lowest class, so that English-speakers don't get stuck with migrant farm working. From conducting school in Spanish, skipping ESL classes, to making sure govt offices have Spanish (not bilingual) forms available, this can be seen as a pattern of keeping Spanish-speaking immigrants disenfranchised. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, and I haven't spent time researching it for myself. - Ladybug Heather

Phil - Actually, during the early part of the last century (during that huge wave of immigration from Eastern Europe), there were many "Americanization" programs aimed at those immigrant groups. Many were run by local civics groups and libraries, and some visited job sites to offer English instruction. The fear of immigrants ran high during that period, something eugenicists took advantage of. - Katy S

An addition: One of the most famous racist anti-immigration texts from that period is Madison Grant's "The Passing of the Great Race, or The Racial Basis of European History." It's available on google books: http://books.google.com/books... I had the displeasure of reading it for my research. Unfortunately, it was very popular. This is the 1921 ed. The first ed. was in 1916. - Katy S

uuuugh... Stuff like this just makes me angry, people should learn to accept, and stop being super christian bigoted halfwit in-bred fucks who think they own the world and are above everyone else... - Greg/battou

Yeah Frenchies! - sofarsoShawn

EPIC FAIL. - Joel Robert Perez

wots rong wiv it? :o/ - Rob Sellen :o)

Morans! - Kimber Scott

Did you mean http://google.com/search... you moran? - ianf ⌘

ianf: Kimber was referring to this - http://images.google.com/images... - Mark H

I'll take your word for it, though comment ambiguity in this specific case isn't the best of strategies. - ianf ⌘

Ianf - http://www.doic.net/halfwit... - Kimber Scott

Talk to me Guse! - Morgan Haley

So I'm guessing bad English is better then fluent anything? And these are the people that if they ever found themselves in France would complain to no end that the people there snubbed them for not speaking French. - Heather

Kimber—and what made you think that an image that's apparently been imprinted in your brain would be that everywhere? There is a world outside the CNN… [@Heather: surely your last "French" is a misprint for "English"? Else it doesn't make sense]. - ianf ⌘

ianf - the "morans" picture has been going around the web for a couple of years now, and besides which, Steven posted that picture as well to the US politics room around the same time as this thread... Also, Heather's point is valid as originally formulated - she means that these "English should be the only language in the US" freaks really just mean "I only speak English" and would prefer French people in France to speak English to them. Admittedly there's a little pronoun ambiguity there, but this is the price we pay for speaking human languages instead of math. - Andrew C

Andrew, perhaps you'd care to read with detached eye rather than misdirected emo before you attempt to correct my correct reading of Heather's misprint: "if they ever found themselves in France [they] would complain to no end that the people there snubbed them for not speaking French." Re: morans-picture, I can only repeat my earlier statement of a whole world outside the CNN and US-political navel-gazing. - ianf ⌘

I am aware of all internet traditions. - Andrew C

Also, I prefer my eyes the way they are - attached. - Andrew C

OR, you could try asking the guy who posted this item what he meant. - Steven Perez from IM

I know some high school English teachers who would love that sign to just say, "English: Learn It". Though that changes the entire meaning, doesn't it? - Miss Elle

Because here is what I meant: people who blather on about how English needs to be the official language of this country, yet can't be arsed to spell correctly on a piece of posterboard, need to STFU. They can take their decades-old thinly-veiled racist claptrap and stick it where the sun don't shine. - Steven Perez from Android

+1 Steven - Kimber Scott from email

IMO If people are gonna bitch about something, they should at least spell it right! Damn! - The Catz Meow

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To funny, what dick heads - Daryl Hunt on FF

Moron's mother always expecting. - Stego

Yep, Steven, and then they all get bunged up when the international view is that we're "all" ignoramuses. Yeesh - English is the "official language" of international business and it's embarrassing to me when people who are not native English speakers have better written grammar and diction than our American brothers & sisters. Bob the Angry Flower needs to address this. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)