Finally

[Allen]

This should have been written into law back in 1776.

The next step should be to stop teaching and pressuring the Spanish language in our public schools. A HUGE waste of money.

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/trump-english-official-language/2025/02/28/id/1200847/

[JB White]

The reason we don’t have an official language is because our Founding Fathers feared it could be German.
Our official business language should be English. I have no problem with a politician addressing his/her constituents in another language if that’s what they are familiar with. Using words and phrases without knowing the nuances of a second language makes for a lot of misunderstandings and errors.

[Phloating Phlasher]

My only problem with multi-lingual societies is that everyone needs to be multi-lingual for it to work.
Switzerland is tri-lingual, french/Italian/ German. Belgium is bi-lingual, French & Walloon. & so on.
But if you have a person in a business where verbal communication is the primary focus, such as Telemarketing or Customer Service, then the need for some kind of common language becomes important.

[Allen]

This is a little beside the point but years ago (1990) I took a Boeing 727 class. A nearby facility was refurbishing, overhauling, and converting obsolete 727's (and other makes/models) from passenger planes to cargo planes. FedEx was the main customer at the time.

The instructor was a former mechanic that had worked for Eastern Airlines.

The nearby rebuild facility is in Mobile and now in Pensacola too. It is owned by Singapore Technologies in Singapore. The instructor informed us that only American standard thread/nuts/bolts were used on Boeing aircraft (nothing metric) and the only language spoken was English whether it was here, in Singapore, or any part of the world. This was the requirement for anyone working on Boeing aircraft.

This was to keep down confusion and eliminate any doubt or question. This included all manuals, instructions, procedures, basically anything in writing too. Nothing could be misinterpreted. Every thing had to be crystal clear, exact w/o any alteration ever w/o engineering approval and documentation.

They now rebuild/refurbish/convert Airbus planes now too. I don't know what the rules are for them in Singapore. English is obviously used here though.

[Oyaji]

I'm pretty sure all commercial airline pilots, world-wide, speak English; an industry standard. What bugs me is voting material here in the United States published in languages other than English. If you can't read/write and speak English, you shouldn't be voting!