Anglocentric supremacists:
“Stop speaking that weird language! Speak more English!”
Spanglish pioneers:
start speaking more English, make “that weird language” less “weird”
Supremacists:
“Not like that!”
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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America intentionally has no official language.
Before WW2 large parts of the country only spoke German, and there were pockets all over that only knew the language of where they immigrated from.
It wasn't until the World Wars and the advent of radio that everyone started moving to just English.
Hell, the town next to where I grew up still has German street signs and most businesses have their signs in German.
I think a decade or two ago they added English signs as well, but there wasn't any law that forced them too.
People being mad about this stuff, is just boomers who think history started when they were born and nothing should fundamentally change as long as their alive.
Doesn't matter if it's good or bad, they want everything to be exactly like how when they were kids. And by the time they were kids, was the big push for an English only America.
The same phenomenon is happening today with internet and social media affecting every nation and every culture in the world.
English is creeping in every culture and in some cases even replacing them.
It's a real shame.
The worst part about it, is English is hands down in the hardest languages to learn, and almost completely nonsensical.
And just communicating in it, tends to make people think and behave in a more individualist manner.
Like I know I'll get shit for saying this, I always do:
But as a species we should have made a "common tounge" long ago like Lord of the Rings.
One that's easy to learn, and has a neutral effect in nias of thinking.
Everyone is free to use their native language, and learn any other language they want.
But have the "common tounge" be something everyone, evwrywhere, learns.
If we never do that, then we're going to see what we're seeing now. English becoming a default language and pushing out others from all facets of life.
Language extinction is a real thing. If England hadn't colonized so much shit and fired natives to only use English, then it would have been forgotten about. Even the English monarchy didn't use English for most of the languages existence.
It's such a weird series of things that lead to one of the worst languages on the planet to become the default everyone tries to learn as a second language at best, and destroying other languages at worst
By German Street signs you mean the street names are German, or the "stop" sign is "stoppen"? I want pics before I believe that.
Stop signs still had "stop". Although for some reason I think they originally were just a red stop sign shape that had a smaller sign with the word "stop" added under it. For some reason that was a thing in rural areas for a while.
But like the signs on the corner that had the name of the street/road. And instead of street/road it has the German work for that. Streisb? I can't make an estatest or however it was spelled, but the weird capital B with a tail that means "ss" .
But after WW2 they updated the legal street names to Angelicized names, I think as a result of a larger state/national law. It was something the locals didn't want tho, and no one official was checking tiny villages, so they left the original signs up, even though that's not the name of the street anymore?
Like the town Butcher had a giant old school sign with zero English or even the word Butcher. Now there's little signs in English under all of them that says what it is. I think because they were trying to be a tourist destination, because literally all the architecture and landscape looked like you were really in 1800s Deutschland. Like, in school my German class (yeah, even towns over had the option of learning German until very recently) we took field trips there.
On a side note, my German teacher's first memory was the Allies attacking the train that was carrying her to a concentration camp, then having to escape through the woods during the fighting. And I swear I'm not even that old now.
I could probably find some kind of article on it, because the whole thing is interesting... But unfortunately I already said it was next to my home town, and man, there are some people who really don't like me on here, and I don't want to put that info out.