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View Poll Results: What percentage of Americans spoke English in 1800?
50% 7 30.43%
60% 8 34.78%
70% 4 17.39%
80% 2 8.70%
90% 0 0%
100% 2 8.70%
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Old 10-13-2008, 05:14 PM   #21
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I guessed 60% also.

Sorry PFiVA, I can't support where you're going on this one. I am a firm believer that English should always be our national language. In 1800 we were just beginning as a nation. Over time, nations have to define their identity and we have defined our language as english.

As soon as we made speaking English a requirement for citizenship, we declared English as our national language. I was in a grocery store last week and needed help to find something. The clerk couldn't speak english. So why is he a clerk when he couldn't help me? I was going to complain to the manager but didn't have the energy that day.
I'm still waiting for someone to call you the racist, Nazi, white supremist POS you are.

This thread is a serious an insult to common sense. Hey, like someone in here once said, a person can buy a lot of books, but no one can buy common sense.
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BTW, I clicked 100%, cuz this thread is 100% retahdid.
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Okay, the wait is over.

I stumbled on the info -- which by the way, a lot of people NAILED -- in this article:

Yale salutes the father of the American dictionary - CNN.com

Yep, it was 60%.

No matter what you think this implies, this is just a great article on one of the crankier men of his time. It's also pretty interesting regarding the purposeful "dumbing down" of English, to make it easier for American kids to spell -- and more characteristically American. Early Phonics.

That's why there's no "k" in "musick" or "u" in "color". But then I think it was Mark Twain who said he had no use for a man so unimaginative he knows only one way to spell a word.

So read it, have a laugh, etc. There's something for everyone, as far as whether we should have a national language (and a couple of other subjects.) A couple surprises too.

Happy Webster's Birthday.

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I'm still waiting for someone to call you the racist, Nazi, white supremist POS you are.

This thread is a serious an insult to common sense. Hey, like someone in here once said, a person can buy a lot of books, but no one can buy common sense.
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I always thought we DID have a 'national langage' but if we don't then I'll go with 'maintaining the unofficial national language' as that part of my reply.

Soo......spill PF! Don't make me look it up
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LOL the answer's a couple posts above... you guys were fighting over who's the big fat nazi and what color chicks you like

Oh yeah by the way, just for you PR

YouTube - Stephen Lynch - Vanilla Ice Cream @ Summerstage Central Park

(To anybody that wants to throw around a charge after viewing - this is in the category of "oh just shut up.")

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LOL the answer's a couple posts above... you guys were fighting over who's the big fat nazi and what color chicks you like

Oh yeah by the way, just for you PR

YouTube - Stephen Lynch - Vanilla Ice Cream @ Summerstage Central Park

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Pretty effn' funny PFiVA! That man is pretty creative and witty and I'm sure he gets some nice women...so I hate him!

Thanks for the humor! Funny, I've loved black women as far back as I can remember yet there wasn't one black girl in my high school...go figure!
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My ultimate woman would be dark chocolate and a beautiful smile. go ahead and call me racist RW My biggest problem is I can't dance
I love the chocolate. Dancing is easy btw. Dancing helps you meet a lot of horny women out on the flo'.
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"Webster wasn't shy about weaving in his opinions. In defining preposterous, he wrote, "a Republican government in the hands of females is preposterous."

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Of course he also thinks people under 45 shouldn't vote lol. Thanks PF
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I love the chocolate. Dancing is easy btw. Dancing helps you meet a lot of horny women out on the flo'.
I'm stereo-typing, but I will say that black women are the sexiest dancers on this earth...or, in the Real World!

Dancing is easy? And you're white? Maybe you "think" you're a good dancer RW! Do you do the white-man over-bite dude?
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