...and tell them vaffanculo.

the Southwest before the US took it over. And let's not forget the Native American languages, Algic (Algonquin), Iroquoian, Muskogean, Siouan, Athabaskan, Uto-Aztecan, Salishan and Eskimo-Aleut. English IS a 2nd language.

is talking about them or making fun of them is someway because in their mind the entire world revolves around them and everyone is always talking or thinking about them.

how poorly native born people speak, spell, and obey rules of punctuation and grammar. Then I suggest that Americans learn another language besides English since this is the only nation on earth where you can make it through the education system without being proficient in one language.

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. I doesn't work and it annoys the pig"

"Why? It never has been."

And, "Do you think we should require it in Puerto Rico and among Native Americans?"

If some form is printed in English and Spanish and Tagalog, what does your friend lose by this?

...what he's saying with his thick Iroquois (Sioux, Navajo, etc.) accent.

From: http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/english-only.aspx

The last two sentences sum it up nicely.

The English-Only Movement
Myths, Reality, and Implications for Psychology
The scientific literature relevant to the arguments for and against the English-only movement is reviewed, to determine whether the Resolution Against English Only before the Board of Directors and the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) was supportable. Some of the misconceptions advanced by English-only advocates that affect the sociopsychological, educational, testing, and health-service delivery arenas are examined. It is argued that there is no support for English-only initiatives, and that the English-only movement can have negative consequences on psychosocial development, intergroup relations, academic achievement, and psychometric and health-service delivery systems for many American citizens and residents who are not proficient in English. The public interest is best served by affirming a position in opposition to English-only. English-only is socially divisive and poses a threat to the human welfare that psychologists espouse in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists.

they had the first settlements here right?

lol..dont waste your time on arguing/debating this nonsense

That's the primary one I see, hear, and read everywhere.

that says so? Some folks are just looking for something to whine about, unfortunately.

that is why, for instance, ballots have to be made available in languages other than English as well as English.

because everything is written in English here so why would it have to be "official?" It's another tea-bagger non-issue.

just that it isn't.

Seriously, This is an issue he/she perceives to be a huge problem for this country?

Sounds like it may be some time for some gentle pointing to some real issues like poverty, hunger, pollution,....and crazy republican positions.

I would just make jokes about how Americans are so stupid and lazy.

Canada has two languages but we're just overrun by idiots so lazy they don't even want to have to press 1 on a damn keypad.

What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Trilingual.
What do you call a person who speaks only one language? American.

since he's so fond of English and all.

Southern slang, or “Hickphonics,” is a language to be taught in all Southern schools. Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English dictionary:

ARE - pronoun.
Possessive case of “we” used as a predicate adjective.

BAHS - noun.
A supervisor.
Usage: “If you don’t stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!”

BARD - verb.
Past tense of the infinitive “to borrow.”
Usage: “My brother bard my pickup truck.”

BOB WAR - noun.
A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”

DID - adjective.
Not alive.
Usage: “He’s did, Jim.”

EAR - noun.
A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in Los Angeles).
Usage: “He cain’t breathe... give ’im some ear!”

FAR - noun.
A conflagration.
Usage: “If my brother from Jawjuh don’t change the oll in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far.”

FARN - adjective.
Not local.
Usage: “I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed... must be from some farn country.”

JEW HERE - Noun and verb contraction.
Usage: “Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump’ny?”

MUNTS - noun.
A calendar division.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain’t herd from him in munts.”

RATS - noun.
Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: “We Southerners are willin’ to fat for are rats.”

RETARD - Verb.
To stop working.
Usage: “My grampaw retard at age 65.”

SEED - verb, past tense.
Usage: “Billy Joe aint cummin to the perty... we seed him yesterdee at the bawrbawr shop.”


TIRE - noun.
A tall monument.
Usage: “Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime.”

http://joek.com/jokes/joke_103.shtml

I always assume that anyone to whom English is a second language, is not someone that person would want to speak with anyway.
Besides, isn't English already the sort of official language?

Free Speech? How do you make someone not speak Dutch if they want to speak Dutch?

What these racist scum bags really want is to never even hear another language.

Ask her if she thinks people should be arrested for speaking a language other than English.

Algonquin, Lakota, Apache, etc.


Make it a joke

Never advocated for English only.

To only use English words, no foreign phrases, no words that we use that are derived from a foreign language such as kindergarten etc.

We actually speak a language that we refer to as English but is actually not so, it is somewhat of a polyglot language.

Or just all of them.

To them, we don't speak English, we speak American.

Seriously, we were in London a couple of weeks ago attending a performance
at The Old Vic (where Kevin Spacey is Artistic Director) of the play, Other Desert Cities.
We got to chatting with the people seated next to us--local Brits--and they told us they
were having a hard time understanding it because it was in "American". Haha.