■Executive order 14224 makes American English the official language of the USA. “Depending on the decree, establishment of an official language might also place restrictions on the use of other languages”, says Wikipedia about an ■official language.
What is it in common the French Revolution and sunshiny French kings of afore would have had? The guillotine. Both used the blade and issued decrees.
Since the blade is not in use by the United States, and Mr. Trump is Donald Trump, man on Earth might blame a Wikipedian subconscious, unless it were to call out, “Sunshine“. I do not mean just any occasion, of course.
Well, I do feel like fireworks and festivity, about American English having become official, yet I am resolved to remain standard. It is about the official language.
■Stephen Krashen and his thousand letters do prove that other tongues would become limited when there is no officially approved language. American English was not official at the time of ■Proposition 227.
227 required that California public schools taught all in English about everything. Immigrant ■LEP students, that is, people of Limited English Proficiency, started to lag behind. Many were not able to make it, and ■Proposition 58 allowed bilingual classes again.
Monolingual education may have disadvantages. The teacher would provide exposure below the flexibility that students can get elsewhere, in the media or libraries, and if the learner does not have the language competence, he or she would prefer the option to rewind, pause, or stop the language flow.
You might become a display for people who say they do not have the gift, whenever it is too early for conversational English.
227 was likely an honest pang of conscience. American had been source to much goodness, and remained unacknowledged: it was official in California, yet not in Washington D.C. It is when there is no “blurry” legal area that many languages can thrive.
Bias about language pursuits has also known wording aggressive. Jill Stewart described the “Krashen Burn” as “wedded to the monied interests of a multi-million-dollar bilingual education industry” (■Wikipedia).
She wrote her words never hinting if she would care to light a scented candle to celebrate American English as a multi-million dollar idea also for people like herself.
Is it even possible to gain a vast knowledge of language without intellectual interest in it? Maybe it is not, and it would be anyway acres of presumption where car mechanics earn without anyone questioning their right to get paid.
People tend to learn the official language because it is about being legally able. Before American English got acknowledged, it was quite a real question if the ■Declaration of Independence or the ■Constitution were in a language of a country.
I never had any idea why there was no official recognition for American English from the USA. To reckon on a matter that is not war, that is good-rounded and proportionate, smith and solid foundation, yet not heavy or cumbersome — American English is a wonderful language.
My discord with Mr. Krashen’s input theory is another matter that I describe ■here.
Finally, to have the official language for hard work only is wrong. True IQ would be in not having problems rather than solving plenty of those. I present my work at that bilingually. The work in progress can be viewed at my ■Travel in Grammar.