IS OUR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN LEARNING?
IS OUR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN LEARNING?
When the president was asked at a Rose Garden question-and-answer session whether the anthem should be sung in Spanish, he replied: “I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.”
He made his remarks on the matters during a wide-ranging briefing with reporters.
“I think people who want to be citizens of this country ought to learn English,” Bush said.
April 28th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Ought is like Aint.. too much lost out. If we’re going to call jive ebonics, ought we also have a catchy name for the slaughter being commenced on the english language by the good southern folk?
April 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Reckon so.
April 28th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
I think the National Anthem should be sung. Period. I think the more people singing it, the better. If they want to sing it in pig latin, so what, as long as it’s sincerely done and not making fun of it?
April 28th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
has anything done in pig latin ever been done sincerely?
April 29th, 2006 at 12:13 am
i-ay on’t-day ow-nay.
April 29th, 2006 at 1:58 am
I didn’t know you could make a pie in a kettle - I learn something new every time I click over here.
April 29th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
that’s why you should click on over every few minutes or so.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:53 am
Off-topic, but up until about 100 years ago, “ain’t I” was considered correct English. see here. Just dropping some knowledge.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:24 pm
If we’re going to call jive ebonics, ought we also have a catchy name for the slaughter being commenced on the english language by the good southern folk?
Phonecks? Phorednics?
Personally, I’m for keeping the national anthem all-english, all the time. I think the spanish version would make good target practice for a thirty-’ought’-six.