Schools that teach immigrants to speak English should also teach them to speak English without a foreign accent.
Is there any doubt that children in foreign countries who learn to speak English have a greater opportunity to succeed in the world?
This post regarding Muslims and sheep was inspired by Obama's sheep-like cowardice toward Iran's nuclear ambitions.
This is our fifth day at the Casa Dorado Resort on Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas. I'm not a big beach or pool enthusiast and as I wrote earlier, I'm perfectly copacetic in a mini-pool.
I'm sure all of us have heard the rule: Don't end a sentence with a preposition. I have to say, in general, for most good writers, the rule against it was long since repealed.
In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.
In 1919, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote, "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."
A NY City subway car filled with people of many cultures. However, my experience is that the young Chinese, Hindu, Koreans, Russians, and other children of immigrants in New York learn our language, become indistinguishable from native New Yorkers, have jobs and contribute to society. Groups who do not assimilate and learn to speak English are doomed to be criminals and dependent on welfare.
So dear readers, please do not compare what happens in your country to the US. If your country has socialized medicine, it is made possible because you do business with America. If your country gives your workers 30 hour work weeks, it is made possible because your companies trade with America.
On this Memorial Day it would do all of us some good if we reflected on who to thank that we are still free in this country and that we still speak English:
