THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & THE STATES.

Statehood must have its rules, and one of them should be that a state must conform to using the English language as its main official dialect.

There would be other languages that could be used to interpret the English language, but that would be as far as they could go; otherwise doing business or dealing with legal procedures would not only be difficult, but far too expensive to the detriment of the state.

I of all people digress to encourage former Senator Santorum to continue with his campaign strategy that, if Puerto Rico would become a part of the United States, as a state, then the English language must be adopted as a qualifying requisition or requirement.

It was like having to undertake or go through any kind of transaction in Mexico, one was liable to use the local language of that state, which should be Spanish. There would be no way that one could go around that, or it would create problems for one.

The U.S. has been an English speaking country for more that 200 years, and it should have made that language mandatory or even compulsory in all 50 states.

However, as the states were not totally dependent on federal law, in terms of using a particular language, it (English) has not been classified as "official" by the Federal government.

Yet, not most, but all the states conduct any type of business using the English language; the reason being that, though there were definite boundaries of each state, they were united as one single nation.

It would also be stupid for the states to make a choice of their own in languages; then what would be the use and meaning of the term "The United States"? In what manner would they (states) be united, if they were speaking or using different languages to port or import official deliberations? The confusion of such a situation would be phenomenal, and the cost of it would be too high, if not unreasonably staggering, for translation from one state to another.

The other candidates running in the Republican Party nomination race, like Romney, would want to make the issue a "hot potato", for political reasons; though they knew that the most sensible thing to do was to support the Island of Puerto Rico to embrace the English language, if it really wanted to be a U.S. entity.

For having a language that was contrary to the one used by all the other states would be unimaginable on several fronts. For example, would the governor there be speaking a different language at the Conference of U.S. governors? Or would he need a translator when visiting the other states?

The U.S. would be proud to have the Island joining the union, and so it must adapt its (union's) practices, and not the other way around. It could keep its culture to differentiate itself from other states, but the people there must realize that to be a true American, one must be able to speak and understand the English language.

For convenience sake, the people there could use their own native dialect, as in Hawaii, under or in social circumstances; but for them to be part of the U.S. they must learn to do what all the other states were doing; and that should be familiarizing themselves with or to formally making "English" their main language.

It (English language) symbolized unity for all Americans.