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Zorro

(17,597 posts)
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 12:31 PM Mar 2025

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

Last edited Mon Mar 17, 2025, 07:12 PM - Edit history (7)

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/

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Trump delivers a piece de resistance in defense of the English language. Bravo! (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2025 OP
I am so glad he took such a strong position. (sarcasm. The guy is an idiot) OLDMDDEM Mar 2025 #1
I don't think you read the whole thing. BComplex Mar 2025 #14
Gee, I thought he nicely impaled Trump (from the medieval latin impalare). rsdsharp Mar 2025 #15
See below yorkster Mar 2025 #2
Accents are a DU subject line limitation Zorro Mar 2025 #3
Right. I "oubliayed" it.. yorkster Mar 2025 #5
Very late, I know, but there is a workaround muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #36
Hi muriel Mosby Mar 2025 #37
There are some tips here: muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #38
Thanks! Mosby Mar 2025 #39
Yes, that was them - 'Make7'. Only one post since November. muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #40
The "English Only" movement is older than America itself. sop Mar 2025 #4
I agreed with the person. Trump is the idiot. OLDMDDEM Mar 2025 #35
Does this include numerals? Beastly Boy Mar 2025 #6
Stephen Miller will outlaw Muslim Numerals and tRump will take us back to Imperial Roman Numerals. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #7
Perfecto mundo! NNadir Mar 2025 #8
Melaniaaaah speaks how many languages? twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #9
Yeah. Fuck me. Don't get me started. Spaghetti? They're noodles. 3Hotdogs Mar 2025 #10
I don't think they actually speak English in the US. NotANeocon Mar 2025 #11
Every time I hear about 'speak English' crap, I hear Rex Harrison singing from My Fair Lady Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #28
Yes indeed- NotANeocon Mar 2025 #34
English is our lingua franca... eggplant Mar 2025 #12
Fuckin' A. (nt) Paladin Mar 2025 #41
A shame none of these words were included .... eppur_se_muova Mar 2025 #13
I find it most amusing DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #16
However, he should have ordered word English changed to Americanese. Sneederbunk Mar 2025 #17
Couldnt tell if it was satire or not. Amaryllis Mar 2025 #18
It's not Trump's bona fide lunacy, per se, but his de facto ignorance that wreaks ad nauseam. defacto7 Mar 2025 #19
Hasta la vista, foreign languages! nt Xipe Totec Mar 2025 #20
Your user name wryter2000 Mar 2025 #21
You can call me the flayed lord. Xipe Totec Mar 2025 #22
The trump family spoke German on arrival and his mother's family spoke Scottish. appleannie1 Mar 2025 #23
May I suggest ..... For fun in the checkout line. Hotler Mar 2025 #24
So many of our words... oldsoldierfadingfast Mar 2025 #25
Trump English only has 85 words. Easy. rickyhall Mar 2025 #26
I'm really afraid that one of these days Hope22 Mar 2025 #27
Porker Brothers is right on it... yorkster Mar 2025 #31
Love it! Nt Hope22 Mar 2025 #33
Eng-uh-lish? What's Eng-uh-lish? Sounds furren! AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #29
Va t' faire fut. Va Fan Coulo, Chinga Te, Cabron. usonian Mar 2025 #30
It would mean a lot more if he was conversant with the language. (nt) Paladin Mar 2025 #32

yorkster

(3,202 posts)
2. See below
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 12:44 PM
Mar 2025

TOUCHÉ!


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

muriel_volestrangler

(103,957 posts)
36. Very late, I know, but there is a workaround
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 03:57 PM
Mar 2025

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

Mosby

(18,716 posts)
37. Hi muriel
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 10:50 AM
Mar 2025

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

(103,957 posts)
38. There are some tips here:
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:12 AM
Mar 2025
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.

muriel_volestrangler

(103,957 posts)
40. Yes, that was them - 'Make7'. Only one post since November.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:24 AM
Mar 2025

So they may not read DU often now.

sop

(14,828 posts)
4. The "English Only" movement is older than America itself.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 01:12 PM
Mar 2025

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."

Beastly Boy

(12,799 posts)
6. Does this include numerals?
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 01:29 PM
Mar 2025

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

Bernardo de La Paz

(56,594 posts)
7. Stephen Miller will outlaw Muslim Numerals and tRump will take us back to Imperial Roman Numerals. . . nt
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 01:44 PM
Mar 2025

3Hotdogs

(14,280 posts)
10. Yeah. Fuck me. Don't get me started. Spaghetti? They're noodles.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:05 PM
Mar 2025

Taco? Try crusty sandwich.

Chicken fry-case? Fuck the pretentious buggers.




















Agnes, do you really need the sarcasm thingy?

NotANeocon

(465 posts)
11. I don't think they actually speak English in the US.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:06 PM
Mar 2025

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

Attilatheblond

(6,416 posts)
28. Every time I hear about 'speak English' crap, I hear Rex Harrison singing from My Fair Lady
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 03:10 PM
Mar 2025

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

eppur_se_muova

(39,208 posts)
13. A shame none of these words were included ....
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:07 PM
Mar 2025

Last edited Mon Mar 10, 2025, 05:44 PM - Edit history (1)

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

(12,728 posts)
16. I find it most amusing
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:10 PM
Mar 2025

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.....

defacto7

(14,087 posts)
19. It's not Trump's bona fide lunacy, per se, but his de facto ignorance that wreaks ad nauseam.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:27 PM
Mar 2025

appleannie1

(5,287 posts)
23. The trump family spoke German on arrival and his mother's family spoke Scottish.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:47 PM
Mar 2025

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

Hotler

(13,244 posts)
24. May I suggest ..... For fun in the checkout line.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:49 PM
Mar 2025
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.
25. So many of our words...
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 02:56 PM
Mar 2025

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".

Hope22

(4,020 posts)
27. I'm really afraid that one of these days
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 03:08 PM
Mar 2025

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.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
29. Eng-uh-lish? What's Eng-uh-lish? Sounds furren!
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 03:20 PM
Mar 2025

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

(18,559 posts)
30. Va t' faire fut. Va Fan Coulo, Chinga Te, Cabron.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 03:25 PM
Mar 2025

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/

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