By Nickolas Marinelli

For English, press one. Para Español, oprima numero dos. Is there anything more frustrating than hearing these words coming from your telephone? After all, this is America. And in America, we speak English. It infuriates me to have a recorded voice tell me that I have to press one to speak my own language—or for Spanish press two. Wait a minute, did I just spontaneously translate a bit of Spanish into English?

Never mind. That's not the point. The point is that in America, English is the official language. Well, that's not literally true. In spite of numerous efforts over the decades, we have no official language in the United States. But English is the predominant language, and everybody should speak the predominant language if they expect to communicate with the predominant population.

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