my republican legislators want to make you speak english to drive in our state

[spanone]

our thug governor is worried, not that it violates any freedoms, he's worried it will discourage foreign businesses from coming here, otherwise he's all for it.

tennessee

currently you can take the driver's test in five languages....

[cutlassmama]

1. When my grandma came here from Poland she HAD to learn English

There was no bi-lingual anything. If people want to come to American they should learn English.

[spanone]

4. i disagree with you 100%

:hi:

[Sonoman]

5. What if the same held true everywhere?

And what if you wanted to move to Norway?

This is crazy.

Sonoma

[AsahinaKimi]

9. My father

Married his English Teacher. (Mom speaks English, Japanese and Korean fluently.) I am the result, and as for me.. My first language is English. My family refused to teach me Japanese. If I wanted to learn it, I had to go to school, which is exactly what I did. I am still learning.. and yes, now they help me.. on occasion.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Wrong.

There have been multi-lingual services available in every wave of immigration the country has ever had. In 1900 there were 23 Yiddish newspapers in NYC alone. Along with dozens of Italian, German, Russian, Czech, and yes, Polish papers. There were often foreign speaking officials in post offices, license bureaus, etc, because the people who filled those jobs were themselves immigrants, or of immigrant families - just like today. And just like today, immigrants learned English with varying degrees of success; their children were raised bi-lingual; their childrens' children spoke English only.

If you want to be proud of your immigrant heritage, you might want to learn something about it.

[datasuspect]

14. I know WW2 era poles in Chicago who still don't speak English

plus they brought all their cultural institutions, set up newspapers, parochial schools, all complete with bilingual services.

so, you're statements conflict with historical fact.

[Kennah]

2. What kind of contraption will have to be attached to the car to make this happen?

[spanone]

6. they could drive, they just couldn't get a license....

[niyad]

12. universal translator? by the way, where can I get one, because the stuff coming out of the mouths

of the reichians makes no sense to me whatsoever.

[Drale]

3. Ok lets start with all the Tea Baggers

They don't speak english at all rather some bastardized hybrid of english and stupid.

[niyad]

7. and I want everyone who proposes and supports this kind of nonsense to be able to demonstrate a

college-level proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and comprehending what is supposed to be their native tongue(or, having seen the post downthread, their birth language). they should be able to do at least as well as I, who am not native, do.

[Kennah]

8. Be careful with that kind of language

Use the term "native tongue" around Teabaggers and they think it's a sex act with a woman of color.

[niyad]

10. great scott--I had not even thought about that--thank you for pointing this out

[malaise]

13. So does that mean that non-English-speaking tourists

can no longer rent cars there?

These people are so fucking stupid that it defies all logic.