Trump was asked to make "American language" the official language in the United States.

A curious linguistic debate has erupted in the United States. Popular conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt made an unusual request during a phone interview with President Donald Trump. He proposed making "the American language" the country's official national language, replacing English.

Hewitt, known for his radical views, stated that America speaks an "American language" that is distinct from British English. Trump promised to consider the proposal without making any specific commitments.

Until 2025, the United States had no official federal language—until English was designated as such. Previously, although it was used in all states, it had no federal status. Hewitt's proposal, while a curiosity, reflects a deeper trend in American politics: a desire for a distinct national identity distinct from "British heritage."

Trump, a pragmatist, is unlikely to waste political capital on renaming a language that has no practical implications. Especially since he already made English the federal language a year ago. Even if the president supports the idea, it will likely remain just another grand statement without consequences.

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[Mouse]

American language

Yeah, that's some twisted English...

[Vend]

American language is the language of the Indians

[ZovSailor]

Mouse
Today, 10: 08

First of all, it must be recognized that this rabble from different continents is illegally living on the land of indigenous Indian tribes, who are against depriving them of the language of their ancestors.

[bayard]

Quote: Mouse

perverted English..

Well, Ukrainian has become a language, but it was originally just a rural dialect of Little Russia. How is the American language worse?
After all, even the Belarusian language already exists. It’s no good falling behind.

[nikon voron]

More like swear words. This was the common belief throughout the world until the 19th century.

[knn54]

A bit off topic.
Did you know your husband flew to Holland with his secretary? It's all gossip. The secretary flew away. To Holland.

[Terenin]

Trump, being a pragmatist, is unlikely to waste political capital on renaming a language that has no practical meaning.

The implications are enormous. The war on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR is being waged for the right to speak one's native language.

[Volunteer Marek]

Absolutely right! As Leonid Bronevoy's character said in a flash: "These are not trifles!"

[Mouse]

You can't go to any lengths to forget your roots...
Gennady, hello!

[Terenin]

Quote: Mouse

You can't go to any lengths to forget your roots...
Gennady, hello!

So, for the Anglo-Saxons, the words “love your neighbor” have long been perceived as nothing less than “have him.”
Hello my friend

[Mouse]

"your neighbor" and not yours.... Have the main one...

[Rosemary]

Quote: Terenin

The war on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR is being fought for the right to speak one's native language.

In the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, Russian-speaking cities (Mariupol, Kharkiv, Kyiv) suffered the most from shelling and destruction, while Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Kupyansk, Konstantinovka, and other cities were practically destroyed. Ukrainian Armed Forces video shows that half of their soldiers speak Russian.
So we're killing Russian-speaking Ukrainians, fighting for their right to kill us while speaking Russian? Holy shit...

[Terenin]

Quote: Rosemary

Quote: Terenin

The war on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR is being fought for the right to speak one's native language.

So we're killing Russian-speaking Ukrainians, fighting for their right to kill us while speaking Russian? Holy shit...

It’s amazing that you don’t understand or are mistaken about the reasons for the conflict.
Reminder: The law banning the Russian language in Ukraine has been in effect for seven years (May 15, 2019). And in July 2021, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled that "Russians as a separate national group do not exist in the country" and that they have no right "to legal protection as an ethnic or linguistic entity." As a result, millions of Ukrainians were declared a "political construct" and definitively lost their right to their native language.

[Rosemary]

Quote: Terenin

It’s amazing that you don’t understand or are mistaken about the reasons for the conflict.
...
As a result, millions of Ukrainian residents were declared a "political construct" and permanently lost the right to their native language.

No, I don't understand. I don't understand why these Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine are fighting against us, fighting in Russian? Why don't they switch sides and turn their weapons against those who forbid them to speak their native language?

[Horon]

Why don't they come over to our side and turn their weapons against those who forbid them to speak their native language?

Because mankurts (see the meaning of the word mankurt)

[Terenin]

Quote: Rosemary

Quote: Terenin

It’s amazing that you don’t understand or are mistaken about the reasons for the conflict.
...
As a result, millions of Ukrainian residents were declared a "political construct" and permanently lost the right to their native language.

No, I don't understand. I don't understand why these Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine are fighting against us, fighting in Russian? Why don't they switch sides and turn their weapons against those who forbid them to speak their native language?

You understand what benefits you, but you have no idea about the total control exercised by Banderites? And don't you remember the "friendship train" of Ukrainian nationalists with slogans like "Crimea will be Ukrainian or uninhabited"? And how are the Banderite secret services operating now... even snagging their own agents in the suburbs of Kyiv?
It's a comfortable position to not understand anything.

[Rakitin]

So in Matrasia, a war for the "native Spanish language" is ahead.

[Joker62]

They write in English the same way they did in Germany. They speak English and speak it without any problems.
Another thing is that in America there are a lot of jargons that are not found in the vocabulary of the English of Foggy Albion.
So it turns out that the American language (modified English with a slang accent) is a local flavor, compared to the prim English.
However, every country has its own cockroaches in its head.

[Rosemary]

"It was not easy to distinguish her from a real Englishwoman, and her example once again confirmed that between us and America there is a surprising amount in common - almost everything, except, of course, language." (c) Oscar Wilde "The Canterville Ghost"

[carpenter]

Quote: Joker62

How they wrote in English and how they write in it

Well, if the US recognizes "American language" as the official language, then all books written in the US will have to be translated into "American language."

[Rakitin]

American English is already very different from British English: over 200 years, a huge amount of alternative vocabulary has accumulated (especially in the technical sphere, as the invention of similar technologies occurred simultaneously), Americans have discarded many archaic rules, and overall, the language has been greatly simplified. Plus, there are a huge number of borrowings from migrant languages, and now also from Spanish.

[tralflot1832]

American language - when they speak English and swear in Russian?

[andrey martov]

Yeah, yeah, and they'll only allow speaking the American language in the US and ban English... at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if American scientists said the Pacific Ocean was dug by the exceptional American nation...

[Pravodel]

I wouldn't be surprised by the statement by American scientists that the Pacific Ocean was dug out by the exceptional American nation.

Forgot about the Atlantic. After all, it was the American nation that dug it out, too...

[Ataman_stasian]

Euro-Atlantic unity dug him out

[Gomunkul]

Hewitt, known for his radical views, said that in America they speak an "American language"

A good attempt to deepen the divisions in American society. The next step after this law is passed will be the formation of language patrols on city streets?

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ Trump was offered to make "American language" the official language in the USA ❞ —
❝ Trump promised to think about this proposal ❞ ​​—

— We need to give him the idea of ​​changing the alphabet...

[sir Garry]

Good idea! On hieroglyphs.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

Americans have bad diction, not bad language. They just meow, like the Irish.

[Per se.]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

Americans have bad diction, not incorrect language.

So, English itself, with its slurred, "animal" sounds and lack of clear pronunciation, feels like a dislocated jaw or a gag. The spelling is atrocious, with no phonetic transcription symbols; looking up an English dictionary is pointless, as if the British copied letters from the Romans without understanding the meaning. But the songs are melodic...
You can wish Trump a happy ending with a line from the film.

[Boycott]

Australians, Canadians, get in line! They're so huge, and they don't even have their own language. So far, the Brazilians and Argentines haven't overtaken them.

[faterdom]

That's right! And English should be recognized as a regional dialect of the Mighty American Language! And Shakespeare as a great American playwright who simply didn't have time to move to America for permanent residence. And in fact, he came from America under the name Chris Marlowe!

[sir Garry]

Quote: Rosemary

fighting for their right to kill us

Translate! What are we fighting for???

[Andriuha077]

The language should be named Trump.
Why English like this:
In the 11th century, the Anglo-Saxon tribes and the remnants of the Celts were conquered by the Romanized Danes from Normandy. From then on, English became the language of the mob. It rose to prominence in the 16th century, when it became the primary language of pirates, simply because three out of four pirates in the Atlantic spoke it. It then became the language of the most widespread slave traders and drug traffickers. For a good half a millennium, English has been associated, in one way or another, with pain, suffering, and injustice.
Amazing language!

Trump's language is another matter:
There is a problem with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump is negotiating in a VERY annoying style.

It's not even Trump's style; it's the specific New York business and negotiating culture. Even in the US, many people can't stand it. And it's not even Wall Street. It's far worse than the lowest level of Wall Street, it's worse than Boiler Room. It's worse than anything in the financial market. Because it's New York commercial real estate.

For those unfamiliar with the industry, it's incredibly difficult to explain just how abnormal this business is. It's always been incredibly opaque. Market participants have always derived the majority of their income not from providing high-quality goods and services, but from their ability to carve out regulatory preferences for themselves. From the ability to obtain a lucrative plot of land from the authorities for development. From the extremely creative use of financial instruments, not quite as advertised. With rare exceptions, virtually all the techniques used to deceive regulators and investors, some of which involve the highly creative use of tax laws, have entered common financial English from commercial real estate. All the jargon comes from there.

And all of this defines a very specific type of negotiation. When Trump came to power, I watched some of the negotiation episodes from his TV show. It's clear that it's all theater, but it's the image Trump wanted and was willing to project back when he wasn't yet involved in politics. And many people who worked with him noted that even though it was television, Trump was just like real life.

So, here it is. A typical Trump phone call starts with a ton of praise, then promises to do a whole bunch of projects together, practically conquering the world together. Then promises to make him rich. Then, right away, promises to practically break his bones, go to court, hand him over to the prosecutor, disgrace him in the media, and so on. Then suddenly he switches back to demanding a discount. Then he offers a discount himself. Then he offers creative financing. Then he praises his interlocutor again. Then again threatens to put him in jail. And so on.

That's why we need to understand the following about Trump, for example. It's not that his words are worthless. But he comes from a part of political culture where getting punched in the face or shot for words was quite difficult. This isn't even Sicily; it's more reminiscent of a Middle Eastern bazaar.

[Mathurin Nankap]

Waouh, quelle grande question existentielle. La seule chose sur laquelle peuvent réfléchir les habitants de ce pays d'incultes est la somme d'argent qu'ils peuvent gagner. Tout autres types de débats et de réflexions est au-dessus de leur force.

[Yuras_Belarus]

American and British English are so intertwined that it's impossible to completely separate them. When studies are conducted on the vocabulary or grammar used by Americans and British speakers, it often turns out that a significant number of Americans prefer the "British" varieties, and vice versa. All this talk about the "American language" is just the chatter of American "patriots." That's why Trump avoided answering the question.

[Scaffold]

One can agree. The garbage spoken in America, including the pronunciation, is embarrassing to even call English.

[Yun Klob]

The language should be called "Trump Language" rather than "American Language." I think so.