re: Is English still the primary language in US?

Southwest U.S. - yes, Spanish
Rural America - English
Urban - Ebonics w/Spanish


This Government had better right this ship we're on or we'll be marching lockstep to some other Communist regime - China, Russia...

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Southwest U.S. - yes, Spanish
Rural America - English
Urban - Ebonics w/Spanish


This Government had better right this ship we're on or we'll be marching lockstep to some other Communist regime - China, Russia...

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What about the English language makes it inherently good? Does it make you a harder worker than that Indian, Mexican or Sengalese guy? Smarter?

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I love and hate that while Mexicans work hard as frick, if it's a holiday, they ain't working. And they will search for a holiday. They will take off Kwanzaa and Rom Kipur.

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Not the ones that work for me.

They show up every day (yeah, they're prolly a tad bit after 7:00AM on the job) and work for ten hours Monday thru Friday, then they put in another eight hours on most Saturdays. Their work is quality stuff. Their framing is square, their connections perfectly match the specs, the finishers provide a flawless level five finish, and they don't cut corners to save a buck here or there.

Americans used to take pride in their work like this, but not so much anymore.

The guys that work for us all have their green cards and have gone through the wringer to stay legal. On two occasions I have been on site when an illegal was working and bragging about how he could work without a visa and told how he had worked around it. The legal guys persecuted and tormented him relentlessly! He didn't last long.

Our guys might take off a day in September for Mexican Independence Day, or another odd holiday that we're unfamiliar with, but they've shown up to work on Thanksgiving when everyone else is taking a four day weekend, they've worked on July 4th, they've worked through Memorial Day weekend and many, many weekends to get a project ahead of schedule or even simply back on schedule when early days of site work had been lost to weather and hindered the entire project.

I think you may have the wrong Mexicans working for you.

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1. You're lying
2. Yes of course it's the primary language

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bullshite!

Going to the grocery store or hardware store is like a trip to Central America.

Exactly correct. I remember a couple of decades back, and when I'd be at a grocery store or whatnot, and overhear voices speaking in a 'foreign' language, it would immediately catch my attention, as it was such a rarity.

Same exact town, and these days, I'll go into a store and very often hear roughly 60% of the voices spoken in a foreign tongue.

It really no longer feels like I'm in America anymore. More like some third-world enterprise zone. Really no sense of connection to a shared culture and society anymore. Patriotism has become pointless, as it just doesn't seem like a real country anymore. Just a sort of grubby, international bus-stop with disparate characters wandering around.

I called the city to schedule a bulk pickup this week. Had to listen to the obligatory language selection audio prompts: English, Spanish, Somalian, and Eritrean. Unbelievable.

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Undocumented Immigrants work a lot harder than you lazy slobs and they cook better

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Maybe so with the yutes we have here now.

At the rate we’re going, Spanish is going to be the primary language in 20-25 years since there are more Hispanics coming here than any other ethnic group

Seems like it’s getting less so. Almost every phone call is press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish. Dual signs.

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Seems like it’s getting less so. Almost every phone call is press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish. Dual signs.

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Last time I was in Japan, there were dual kanji/latin script signs everywhere. It's almost like humans try to accommodate other humans when it's not a big deal to do so...