Comments on: The English Language Unity Act: Big Government Only a Tea Partier Could Love http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/english-language-unity/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Rob Ince http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/english-language-unity/#comment-177601 Rob Ince Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:58:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=11418#comment-177601 Just for the record, England is not a Socialist state - as can be seen with the new Government standing for "small" government and cutting budgets and jobs. Yes, we still pay tax to fund the health system - but thank goodness for private medical alternatives, which I and many other Brits pay additionally for. Over in the UK, we increasingly provide for translations of government websites and school information in many other languages - it is just the way of this globalised world. Just for the record, England is not a Socialist state – as can be seen with the new Government standing for “small” government and cutting budgets and jobs. Yes, we still pay tax to fund the health system – but thank goodness for private medical alternatives, which I and many other Brits pay additionally for.

Over in the UK, we increasingly provide for translations of government websites and school information in many other languages – it is just the way of this globalised world.

]]> By: Royce Miller http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/english-language-unity/#comment-175282 Royce Miller Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:57:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=11418#comment-175282 If there is no official language for the USA, why are all of the major US documents to include the declaration of independence, constitution, the US code of federal regulations, and all congressional bills written in English, and debated in English? Anyone can speak in any language they wish regardless of an official language. The US Congress should either adopt English as the official language (that it already is for all practical purposes), or start writing and debating legislation in languages selected by the opposition to it, or selected by a random drawing. Congress simply doesn't have the guts to acknowledge the obvious! If there is no official language for the USA, why are all of the major US documents to include the declaration of independence, constitution, the US code of federal regulations, and all congressional bills written in English, and debated in English?

Anyone can speak in any language they wish regardless of an official language.

The US Congress should either adopt English as the official language (that it already is for all practical purposes), or start writing and debating legislation in languages selected by the opposition to it, or selected by a random drawing.

Congress simply doesn’t have the guts to acknowledge the obvious!

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