The executive order to make English the official language of the US continues a long history of suspicion toward languages other than English that dates back to some of our founding fathers. Benjamin Franklin worried that the German-speaking immigrants of his era would never learn English and therefore not become true Americans. Yet at this point in our history, an executive order proclaiming that English shall be our official language is like proclaiming that all fish shall be officially wet. English has long ago saturated all aspects of life in America. And besides, Americans have never [...]