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English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by panafrican(m): 3:23am On May 21, 2018
It is written nowhere in the constitution that English is the official language of the United States. Note also during the revolution several languages including French an Dutch were spoken in the thirteen colonies,
The Founding Fathers did not make English the official language of the United States because the issue was divisive, they did not want to offend any of the foreigners who volunteered to fight for America ' s independence.
Recently (in 2006) a Senate's bill failed to make English the official English language of the U.S.
As a reminder African slaves were prohibited from learning how to write and read English .
Read more
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/english-us-official-language-trnd/index.html
Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by tukdi: 3:50am On May 21, 2018
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Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by Mikora: 4:42am On May 21, 2018
How this one take concern us for Naija

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Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by panafrican(m): 11:17am On May 21, 2018
Mikora:
How this one take concern us for Naija
English should not be a. disqualifying criteria to Nigerians who.want to settle in the U.S. if they only speak Hausa, Igbo , Yoruba or any of the several languages in Nigeria.

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Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by drakeli: 12:03pm On May 21, 2018
This post lack sense. In a clime where English is the language of governance, medicine, technology, and first language of more than 80% of the population, and where English is the language of the founding fathers that drafted the constitution in English, what official declaration do you want? Doesn’t that tell you something?

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Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by panafrican(m): 2:39pm On May 21, 2018
drakeli:
This post lack sense. In a clime where English is the language of governance, medicine, technology, and first language of more than 80% of the population, and where English is the language of the founding fathers that drafted the constitution in English, what official declaration do you want? Doesn’t that tell you something?
It makes sense because of fools like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m_wvtm4wIg
Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by Nobody: 4:58pm On May 22, 2018
Mikora:
How this one take concern us for Naija
This section is for foreign affairs. What were you expecting?

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Re: English Is Not The Official Language Of The United States by panafrican(m): 7:57pm On May 22, 2018
DJHANDSOME:
This section is for foreign affairs. What were you expecting?
Maybe Mikora thinks foreign issues are Nigerian issues grin

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