Wonder if he would feel the same if his name was Walter Smith.

The US and Australia need one official language spoken well by everyone.When you have mastered the official language,then you can be multi- lingual to your heart's content.

A single language makes the economy run well and premotes social cohesion.People both here and in the US become marginalised if they don't have a good grasp of English.To be in the twilight existence of poorly grasping several languages,is no man's land.

Now let's see . . .
The Mexican was blonde, the waitress was brunette and the food was cold.
Maybe if you could start again Walt.
Writing was ment to be simple and to be understood. The brunette was . . . where was she sitting . . . south of the border.
Let's read this again. The waiter was, where was he?

This is hardly a new phenomenon, language is often manipulated to various ends.

Think about it - had anyone ever heard the term 'spider hole' before they pulled Saddam out of one?

I would have thought he was bad enough, but apparently the more common term 'fox-hole' just didn't sound evil enough for the likes of Hussein.

Similarly, you'll find that whenever a new law is passed limiting some kind of action, the names are always rosy sounding, like 'work choices', or in the US case, the 'Patriot Act'.

It's all a game as old as language itself, and it's up to the individual to work out the true meanings.

Hey ROMANY
don't worry mate.. you will get to recognize a 'leftist moron' more and more as you inhabit this forum :) The main symptom is:

Yell and scream about a 'symptom' and use that as a straw man with which to beat Conservatives to death, rather than looking at the real issue underlying the symptom and taking a responsible approach to it.

He is using the rediculous to disguise his real agenda and deflect our right to linguistic self rule.

There are many Mexicans waving Mexican flags in street marches, who are also carrying signs like "Reverse the invasion" etc...
Demographic changes in particular areas make it politically attractive to support such things as language change, but the immediate outcome is to alienate all English non spanish speakers in the city/town/state etc.

Ultimately its about world domination :) (do u like that ? :).. but not domination by Spanish speakers, by the moronic LEFT ! the international socialists etc... You have to dilute any sense of nationalism before you can take power. Language, nationalism and morality are 3 arrows in the quiver of 'takeover'.

How can you have international socialism while 'countries' don't want it ?

Dig deep enough in a Leftists brain and you will ultimately find this is what lies below. NO ethnic or national identity, NO borders, NO 'countries'. Just a great mass of glazed eyed robot proletarian drones.

I believe all signage in Australia should PROMINANTLY be in English, with perhaps some small other language if any.

Harping on about borrowed words and language police as the author did is just insulting us.

American English, British English, Canadian English, and Australian English are very different. We spell differently, use different idioms and rhetoric, use different irony, emphasis, and intonation.

The author makes a good point that the nature of the English language itself is unique. The diversity of our language is what makes it a world language, as a diverse living language so fabulous and dynamic.

There is no such thing as pure English anyway, it was always a hybrid between Latin, Greek, French, German, Sanskrit, Gaelic, Welsh, Pix, Angle, Saxon, Juke, Celt, and even some Viking. UK English in London is probably newer in its development and use than US English, as it has evolved faster with more diversity Internationally. It is more than just rhyming slang that makes UK English so colourful. Yes, I like the "u" letter in that last word.

American English is influenced from Afro-American, Latino-American Franco-American and Germanic-American influences. This gave it a dynamic of its own, in some ways fabulous in itself. We no longer have a Victorian Oscar Wilde view that: "American is not a language, it is a dialect". The UK in the 20th century has transcended this and has sprouted "dialects" of its own. So have we in Australia.

I disagree with the Quebecois in Canada, even if they speak French, they are similar rednecks imposing French on everyone in a their province of bilingual Canada. This has the same arrogance of the US imposing the US speaking English police. How stupid! The US English language is not at danger, if anything, it is taking over the world. And no, this is not a left or right wing conspiracy. That irrelevant tangent can only come from BOAZ who watches too much South Park and doesn't do enough empirical study.

The Mexicans can only enrich the English language. In a way, it brings us back to a Latin base: an older English version. The Mexicans have their own quirkiness, and this can only make the language thrive as a living masterpiece. US English as a language is not threatened by Spanish speaking Latinos.