+385 "You came in into America, so speak English!" And who the fuck lived in the Americas before the damn Europeans came along? OH YEAH, NATIVE AMERICANS. Learn to speak native American first, bitch. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well I guess with that logic anyone who lives in England has to learn Insular Celtic languages, Brythonic languages, British, Cumbric, Southwestern Brythonic, Breton, Cornish, Goidelic languages, Galwegian Gaelic, Ivernic, Pictish, Old English, Middle English, AB language, Early Modern English, Old Norse, Norn, Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin before they can complain about other languages in their country.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The OP needs to learn how to speak English as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I can see where you're coming from, but this isn't their country. They were here first, we drove them out (though after making them a multitude of times, we set aside reservations).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think if someone moves to America they should learn the native language. It's just stupid if they don't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Then why did you disagree with the post?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Native American isn't the language most commonly spoken in the USA *now*, though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh right, I just read your comment incorrectly in my head.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not like people from other countries don't complain when they can't understand what the fuck the American/English/Irish/Whathaveyou person next to them is saying. Americans aren't the only people who have a problem with it, so stop acting like we're all a bunch of insensitive bastards.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha, this is on a shirt at T-shirt Hell.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Which language? Shawnee? Cherokee? Alagonuin? Choctaw? Seminole? Chickasaw? Creek? There were so many different tribes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Depends where you live. I used to live in New Jersey, so did I have to learn Lenni Lenape?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ya so then wed be dividing the nation w diff languages? tht hardly seems wise

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My point exactly.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why doesn't an immigrant just learn the majority language of the country/official language? Like someone else said, we drove them out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's a difference between taking over a country and moving to it. The Americans took over the Native Americans and took the land for their own. Mexicans(not to stereotype, it's just that the majority of illegal immigrants and non-English speakers are Mexican) come to America to live here, not to take over. If someone takes over, they can use their own language. But when someone comes to a country that other leaders/people own and have taken over, they should speak the language the owners of the country do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People come here for our freedoms, which are stated in the constitution. And it's in English.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What a fallacious and generally terrible argument.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Simmer down.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Someone had a lot of anger to let out

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But the "native" americans weren't native.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So I guess if you're moving to -Italy, learn Latin, not Italian. The Latins were there before the Romans after all.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I love it when people try to sound smart and just sound like idiots. For like my fellow anon. I'm doubting that there were once people called the Latins, but I could be wrong. Actually I thought this whe argument was stupid and pointless but that's just me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Guess again. I'm a Latin student, and the tribe that first lived un the area we call Rome today were the Latins.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The "Latins"? I know that Latin was spoken early on, but I don't recall learning about an ancient society of the "Latins".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am NOT my ancestors; don't blame me for their actions. If went to live in any other country, I'd more than likely have to learn the language.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow, absolutely none of you get this post at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago