What is the official language of the USA?

[Torsten]

So, what is the official language of the United States of America? Is it English, German, Spanish or Russian? Or maybe none of them?
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[Cookie]

Hey Mr Smart Guy, are you trying to kid us? Any fool knows that English is the official language of the US. Next thing you'll ask us how many states the States has. Can't you come up with something smarter?

[Skrej]

Actually, Cookie, it's a trick question. There is no official language of the U.S., unfortunately. Joke's on you.

There is some push to implement one, but it's not a widespread movement nor does it have much momentum.

As a result, I have to push '1' to choose English, instead of having English as the default choice. This really pisses me off every time I use an ATM, an automatic scanner, make a phone call, read the school announcements, etc.

I see signs and services provided in Spanish that aren't correspondingly provided in English. No wonder our Hispanic immigrants often don't bother to learn English. Why should they, there's little incentive, as almost everything is provided to them in Spanish.

How long, I wonder, until the Citizenship exam is given in languages other than English? It's the sole bastion of 'English only', so I doubt it'll be long before there's a bunch of lawsuits brought forth claiming that it's discriminatory to make people take the citizenship test in English, since English isn't the official language.

Something just doesn't smell quite right about all this...
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[Diverhank]

The US does not have an official language. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States

In California, you can request your voting ballot or driving test booklet to be in just about any language. Interestingly enough, California's official language is English (since 1986). Unlike Skrej, I like diversity. I don't mind signs in other languages...it's fascinating.

[Jan]

America is as the country very very special and for foreigners in general just hard case to follow or to understand ,in many situations it would be a reason why so many people feel to be alienated by USA.
About English in States Texas , I heard about one high rank politician , that she has tried to force local kids in kindergarden (Spanish spoken children) to use only English, as I am remembered it was under some kind of the forcefully implemented law ,one of her arguments was that if English was good for baby Jesus than would be good enough for Mexican kids.
Just in case if some of our natives couldn't find anything strange in this.
Jesus never had even a chance to know anything about English.
The language nationalism is just danger whenever and certainly America is not free of these problems.Only Esperanto will grant all of us the eternal linguistic joy.

Jan

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[Cookie]

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Amy, in that case I apologize for suspecting you!

What exactly does the Suffix D.C. mean? And is Washington D.C. situated straight on the border between two states or is it having the state of an enclave?

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