Europe has some nerve not speaking English
By Bernie on 09 Jul 2008:
I think it would be a great mistake not electing Obama POTUS. He constantly offers us material for jokes and blog posts. His latest is suggesting that Americans should be more concerned with teaching their kids Spanish than with immigrants learning English. Read Hot Air blog post Obama: Your kids should learn Spanish.
It happens I agree with Barry Barack on teaching our kids other languages. Had he not juxtaposed it with our concern that immigrants are not learning English, this would have been a non-event.
We should make English the national language; even more, we should insist that Europeans teach all their children English as well. Certainly the world should require that all pilots speak English fluently. That many Europeans are bilingual is worthless unless one of the languages is English. Take for example Alcoa's $3 billion Hydropower Project in Iceland: because of language differences the project was delayed at great cost in time and money. What good is it if Italian welders also speak French but not English when the project leader speaks English? One of the reasons that India does so well in scientific and other fields is precisely because so many of them speak English. The lingua Franca of the world should be English, not just for business, science, technology, aviation, and diplomacy but for travel, entertainment, news, blogging, and education.
After WWII when we saved Europe from certain death and destruction, all European nations should have had the decency to learn English in gratitude. That most European pilots, businessmen, and scientists know English isn't good enough. The rest of their populations should learn English as well. In time, not knowing English will be equivalent to not knowing how to read in one's native language and will damn the speaker to a life of poverty and ignorance. The Tower of Babel was never completed because everyone did not speak one language.
By the way, World, you can speak English standing up. Arabic on the other hand is best spoken on your knees, begging for your life.
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