Trump delivers a piece de resistance in defense of the English language. Bravo!

[Zorro]

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I am thrilled that President Donald Trump has so courageously stood up for the English language here in the United States.

For the first time in our history, an American president has declared by executive order that English is the official language in the United States. The move came after what Trump said has been an onslaught of immigrants bringing their foreign languages to our shores.

“We have languages coming into our country,” Trump explained. “These are languages — it’s the craziest thing — they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a horrible thing.”

Finally, we have a president with cojones who will not take a laissez-faire attitude when it comes to standing up for our English language from all these personae non gratae.

No longer will they have carte blanche to offend us with their foreign words, coming here en masse, like a human blitzkrieg, with their modus operandi of disrespecting English.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/03/04/trump-america-english-official-language/81134023007/

[OLDMDDEM]

1. I am so glad he took such a strong position. (sarcasm. The guy is an idiot)

[BComplex]

14. I don't think you read the whole thing.

He was mocking trump.

[rsdsharp]

15. Gee, I thought he nicely impaled Trump (from the medieval latin impalare).

[yorkster]

2. See below

TOUCHÉ!


Couldn't put the accent in the title. Somehow " Touch!" (autocorrect, natch)
didn't seem quite right.

[Zorro]

3. Accents are a DU subject line limitation

[yorkster]

5. Right. I "oubliayed" it..

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. Very late, I know, but there is a workaround

Type 'pièce" instead. You have to retype this if you use 'Preview' or you edit your post.

[Mosby]

37. Hi muriel

Where do you find syntax guidelines for DU?

If I wanted to increase the font for some text in the body do you know how I would do that?

Thanks.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. There are some tips here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/125622743

There was a DUer who was very good at being able to get formatting into DU, but I don't think they've posted for some time, and I can't remember their exact name now (something along the lines of starting with an 's' and ending in a '7' or '8', I vaguely feel).

I think it's possible that with the latest update to DU, some of the workarounds that used to work don't any more. I can't find anything for font size.

[Mosby]

39. Thanks!

I think it was "make7" or something like that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Yes, that was them - 'Make7'. Only one post since November.

So they may not read DU often now.

[sop]

4. The "English Only" movement is older than America itself.

Demagogues like Trump love to use it every time they need to stir up a little nativist hatred. Trump's recent ramblings are similar to something President Roosevelt wrote in 1907: "We have room for but one language in this country, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house."

[OLDMDDEM]

35. I agreed with the person. Trump is the idiot.

[Beastly Boy]

6. Does this include numerals?

I am tired of being subjected to a decimal system being forced down our throats by undesirables from shithole countries!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Stephen Miller will outlaw Muslim Numerals and tRump will take us back to Imperial Roman Numerals. . . nt

[NNadir]

8. Perfecto mundo!

[twodogsbarking]

9. Melaniaaaah speaks how many languages?

Deport her, and the orange horse she rode in on.

[3Hotdogs]

10. Yeah. Fuck me. Don't get me started. Spaghetti? They're noodles.

Taco? Try crusty sandwich.

Chicken fry-case? Fuck the pretentious buggers.




















Agnes, do you really need the sarcasm thingy?

[NotANeocon]

11. I don't think they actually speak English in the US.

And Drumph certainly does not speak the king's tongue!

[Attilatheblond]

28. Every time I hear about 'speak English' crap, I hear Rex Harrison singing from My Fair Lady

Been that way since I was 8 and learned that song.

[NotANeocon]

34. Yes indeed-

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Ah g'wan!

[eggplant]

12. English is our lingua franca...

...n'est-ce pas?

[Paladin]

41. Fuckin' A. (nt)

[eppur_se_muova]

13. A shame none of these words were included ....

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_from_Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas since English is, after all, the language of disease-bearing immigrants.

Note that "caucus" is on that list.

ETA: "Muskrat", the South African Nazi's favorite nom de net, is also on the list.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. I find it most amusing

that when Americans visit foreign countries, they feel so "entitled" that they expect all of the country's people to speak English........LOL

U.S. airline pilots are so fortunate that the Airport Towers in every country speak english.........And that the pilots in every other country have to learn English just to do their jobs.....

[Sneederbunk]

17. However, he should have ordered word English changed to Americanese.

[Amaryllis]

18. Couldnt tell if it was satire or not.

[defacto7]

19. It's not Trump's bona fide lunacy, per se, but his de facto ignorance that wreaks ad nauseam.

[Xipe Totec]

20. Hasta la vista, foreign languages! nt

[wryter2000]

21. Your user name

Is pretty suspect, pal

[Xipe Totec]

22. You can call me the flayed lord.

[appleannie1]

23. The trump family spoke German on arrival and his mother's family spoke Scottish.

And trump himself speaks a language that no one fully understands using words no one has ever heard of.

[Hotler]

24. May I suggest ..... For fun in the checkout line.

https://www.duolingo.com/
The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language!

Also
https://www.openculture.com/
The best free cultural & educational media on the web.

[oldsoldierfadingfast]

25. So many of our words...

are derived from other languages. I took Latin in HS. 'Fucare' means 'to sow seeds'. You know what we got from that!
Adding, in my very best Spanish - Trump's words are "el crappo de toro".

[rickyhall]

26. Trump English only has 85 words. Easy.

[Hope22]

27. I'm really afraid that one of these days

I’m actually gonna puke…..please get this man some help. He has isolated us from every civilized part of this planet. If Parker Brothers made a game of this people would say the concept was just too stupid.

[yorkster]

31. Porker Brothers is right on it...

🐖 🐷 🐽

[Hope22]

33. Love it! Nt

[AmericaUnderSiege]

29. Eng-uh-lish? What's Eng-uh-lish? Sounds furren!

Must be what them ho-muh-sekshulls talk over thar in Eng-uh-muh-land. We don't talk that mess here in Murca. Y'all can keep all that readin' books and countin' numbers.

[usonian]

30. Va t' faire fut. Va Fan Coulo, Chinga Te, Cabron.

BAN LATIN IN COURTS.

Caligula Delenda est!



Emperor Caligula and his horse Incitatus
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220007444

The tale of Caligula’s horse, Incitatus, being appointed as a senator is one of the most outlandish anecdotes about the emperor’s supposed madness. Incitatus was not just any horse; by all accounts, Caligula lavished him with luxuries typically reserved for Rome’s elite. The horse lived in a marble stable, with an ivory manger, and was the recipient of jewelry and other decadent trappings of wealth. The story goes that Caligula was so enamored with Incitatus that he intended to make a farce of the senatorial proceedings by raising his horse to the high office of a consul.

https://historychronicles.org/caligula-a-mad-tyrant/

[Paladin]

32. It would mean a lot more if he was conversant with the language. (nt)