Trivia: What is the Official Language of the United States of America?

[Sandpiper]

Correct answers will get...

The satisfaction of knowing you were right.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

1. We don't have an official language, right? n/t

[Sandpiper]

12. Correct

The United States has no official language.

Which makes the anti-Spanish speaking sentiment held by many seem especially xenophobic.

[DRoseDARs]

2. Legalese. n/t

[latteromden]

3. There is no official language. English and Spanish are national languages,

but not official ones.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

9. My state, New Mexico,

has named both English and Spanish as the official languages of the state, I believe.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. So do they publish the laws in Spanish too?

That seems a reasonable test for whether it's an official language.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Doublespeak.

In English.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. There isn't one.

[UdoKier]

6. As of about 1998 - LIES

Seemed to become the norm around the time of the Clinton "impeachment".

[Azathoth]

7. Money

The one language everyone in the US understands.

[jojo54]

8. Can't spell it but

it sounds much like a monkey straining to take a dump!

[librechik]

10. esperanto

[jdj]

11. Jingoism.

mixed with references to the "screepshure"

[RPM]

19. too damn true

:-(

[paineinthearse]

13. Newspeak

Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure for ever? Like an answer, the three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[Historic NY]

14. Spanglish.............n/t

[SmartBomb]

15. It's called Drool Splat

[LaReservaPr]

17. The Whatever you can manage language...

[Maestro]

18. There is none

and we do not need one. Official languages do nothing to unite people unlike what neocons say.