Comments on Founders Ministries Blog: Whatever happened to the English language?

Although English may not be the "oficial" language...

2008-11-22T18:10:00.000-05:00

Although English may not be the "oficial" language in the States, it is the "national" language.

Immigrants love the American ideal/dream, but they want to retain as much of their native culture as possible in order to keep their identity and avoid the identity crisis Americans have (David Wells briefly touches on this in Losing Our Virtue). And one area of keeping their cultural identity is language. Thus, language is not merely a communication issue for immigrants, but also a source of identity.

Whenever I run into Koreans who ask me if I speak Korean, and my response is, "No," they shake their heads and say, "Shame on you. You lost your Korean identity."

This is a running joke in our office--the misuse o...

2008-11-22T17:44:00.000-05:00

This is a running joke in our office--the misuse or mispronunciation of words. In fact, we've begun compiling a "dictionary;" included are words such as:
- "ideal" (idea)- "I have no ideal what their problem was." Or "That's a good ideal. NOTE: We heard and seen this one written on multiple occasions
- "twiced" (more than once) - She told him twiced.

I have three typed pages of this stuff. It's hilarious.

When I read your post "http://www.founders.org/blo...

2008-11-19T16:58:00.000-05:00

When I read your post "http://www.founders.org/blog/2008/11/justin-taylor-on-steve-lemkes.html" and then Steve Lemkes' article- I thought the same thing. He is a doctor, but that article was very poorly written. I could not believe that was written by a person tied to NOBTS.

Chris:Uh, erm, of course it was intentional! I gue...

2008-11-19T14:17:00.000-05:00

Chris:

Uh, erm, of course it was intentional! I guess that's poetic justice, isn't it.

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"The concern is that if don't force immigrants to ...

2008-11-19T14:13:00.000-05:00

"The concern is that if don't force immigrants to learn and speak English"

Was that intended to be irony, illustration, or oversight?