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Saturday, May 23, 2015

QUESTION: What is the Official National Language of the USA? ANSWER: None!


 Most worldwide citizens can answer that quite easily. They have only a couple of languages to choose from. Now — you in the great United States of America — do you know your Official National Language? The answer: NONE!

Did your heart drop as mine did when learning that? This powerful country, the only major country in the world to welcome all languages, the only one to mix many languages with an English base, the only country that does NOT recognize the uniqueness of its linguistics — the only one listed as NONE. What a shameful omission!

In order to fulfill that missing piece, I am petitioning the folks who administer the federal government to issue a proclamation (at the very least) to recognize USA-English as the Official National Language. Here’s how that petition reads:

Respectfully asking the United States Congress to designate USA-English as the Official Language of the United States, acknowledging the nation’s unique multi-cultural population with varied ways to write and speak a language based on English. No other nation can make this claim, and yet the USA is the only major nation without a designated official language.

Here’s the whole story:

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to make USA-English, with its inclusive languages from around the world, flexible to teach and learn, the official free language of the United States of America.


WHEREAS: The United States of America, a powerful international leader, has no designated official language;


WHEREAS: Widespread confusion exists over the “rules” of grammar that should be taught to USA students;


WHEREAS: The United States of America fought and won a war to be free of control from England, resulting in changes made to the language to suit the needs of a new nation, free and independent;


WHEREAS: The USA is the only nation in the world composed of immigrants from around the world, who bring with them their native culture: foods, music, rituals, art, customs, and language;


WHEREAS: USA is weary of having British English (The King’s/Queen’s English) foisted on its people as “proper, correct, accurate, and suitable”;


WHEREAS: U.S. teachers are not being trained to teach grammar — any kind at all — because of the contradictions in grammar texts;


WHEREAS: The USA has developed its own style of English that includes words and syntax of every other major language in the world (and a few not-so-major);


THEREFORE: The time has arrived to offer teachers and students of the United States an official language that provides guidelines for global usage, flexible word adaptation, freedom to make appropriate changes, and the right to be free of complex, outdated “rules” based on the language of England, from whom we claimed our independence.

 If you feel so moved, please join me in forwarding this blog to your Congressional representatives (House and Senate), to the President of the United States, and to any linguistics organization you know.

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