The Mother Tongue
...is the bastard child of a dozen fathers (including Anglo-Saxon, Frisian, Brythonic, Latin, Old Norse, and Norman French, not to mention the many others--including Spanish--contributing loan words), yet the GOP feels compelled to defend her honor through useless legislation designed to insult Hispanics while apeasing the xenophobic "base". As if there were no real problems requiring their attention. Pendejos.
Divisive In Any Language
As it considered the immigration bill last week, the Senate passed an utterly useless amendment sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) declaring English to be our "national language" and calling for a government role in "preserving and enhancing" the place of English.Technorati Tags: GOP, English, Spanish, pendejos
There is no point to this amendment except to say to members of our currently large Spanish-speaking population that they will be legally and formally disrespected in a way that earlier generations of immigrants from -- this is just a partial list -- Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, France, Hungary, Greece, China, Japan, Finland, Lithuania, Lebanon, Syria, Bohemia, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia were not.
