Againsheila
Gold Member
It would mean a huge savings as government documents no longer have to be translated into dozens of languages.
Having English as the official language woudn't really prohibit speaking another language, the effect would be to stop accommodating the literally hundreds of languages now accommodated.
I dissagree. As we are printing less and less paper and rely more and more on electronic transmission and storage of information it is far less neccesary to have an "official" language. Actually it is better to leave it open in my opinion as there are many languages and running translations digitally makes it much easier to keep everyone informed.
Have you seen some of those translations? Unless those programs get a whole lot better, they are no good at all.