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Old 10-12-2007, 11:40 PM  
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays View Post
uhmm yeah. thats like saying "germany has never declared an official language" or iceland.

does a country need to declare an official language when OBVIOUSLY there IS an official language? does not declaring an official language confuse you? do you still have questions about the issue? are you seeing japanese road signs somewhere? did you catch yourself trying to translate kentucky state laws from finnish to english so you could understand them? were you in a public building trying to figure out where the bathrooms were because everything was written in mandarine chinese?
Most other countries have, one or two. Canada has two. The United States has none. We are a country BUILT on diversity. If the U.S. declares an official language then all gov/state documents would be written only in English. While English is spoke by most, states like Cali have documents written in 47 languages. We can't forget about the 50 million + fellow citizens that can't read English.
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