Question to non-English speakers: how'd you react if your government announced the following?

[TheOldNorth]

"Our language is pointless and irrelevant in the modern world. Therefore, we should gradually phase it out - at least from public life - and make English the sole and official language of the nation".

even though I support english being the official language of the USA, I wouldn't ever go this far. I still believe people have the right to preserve and speak their languages

[Tooting Carmen]

even though I support english being the official language of the USA, I wouldn't ever go this far. I still believe people have the right to preserve and speak their languages

Stereotypes notwithstanding, I actually find Americans to be far more accommodating towards other languages than the British are. However globalised and multicultural modern Britain may be in many ways, the truth is that not even London (or, for that matter, other heavily immigrant cities like Birmingham, Leicester or Bradford) have anything like as much multilingual signage, information, menus etc. as is the case in many US cities.

[Tooting Carmen]

bump

[Maintenance]

Sorry i don't speak english.


Jokes aside, English is so common in Sweden, tv ads in english, english is written on stuff you buy in the store, people learn english at a young age in school.
Its kinda happening here without anyone knowing.

I don't care unless they forbid Swedish to be spoken.

[Drusilla]

That'd never happen in France.

Most French people can't speak English fluently and there's this silly old beef with England.

People would protest like there's no tomorrow.

[Tooting Carmen]

Sorry i don't speak english.


Jokes aside, English is so common in Sweden, tv ads in english, english is written on stuff you buy in the store, people learn english at a young age in school.
Its kinda happening here without anyone knowing.

I don't care unless they forbid Swedish to be spoken.

TV ads in English? Doesn't Sweden make its own ads then?

[CordedWhelp]

Fight! Fight! Fight!

[Tooting Carmen]

People would protest like there's no tomorrow.

They do that in France anyway.

[Drusilla]

They do that in France anyway.

I know.

[Tooting Carmen]

I know.

As a French person, would you rather that France (a) had a Black and/or Maghrebi majority but kept the French language or (b) stayed majority White but saw the French language disappear?