Dear Capoeira,

I was not referring to offering translators at courts, which is still the very evidence that only one language, English, is official. Saddam, for example, was also presented a translator, but we even don't have a doubt of whether Arabic is spoken widely in the USA. Well.. Maybe Elisa or someone from Canada would enlighten me, but I guess in Belgium, for example, you would be able to defend yourself in Dutch or French, depending on your mood at the time, without need a translator, since the judges as well as the Belgium people are bilingual.

I think I get your point, and find you quite right; but I also think Spanish has no chance, sorry, to be regarded as equal (or whatever you wish it to be) with English, particularly while English is spoken world wide. This is not a matter of the amount of Spanish-speaking people, of wishing or demanding it to be accepted as official, or whatever we prefer to name, of whether Spanish is as good and rich as English, but a matter purely of economy. In what language the world economy as well as the USA economy is controlled and leaded, that language is the official language of both the USA and the world- namely not even the British or Canadian English, but American English. You may be given, and in fact you have, freedom to use in the USA all the languages on the earth, but the official, or dominant, or whatever we call, language remains and will always remain the same: American English, unless you market and sell your terrible culture (Hollywood, McDonalds), your so-called technology (Microsoft), law system ('America is the country of freedoms') merchandises (Coca Cola, Apache Helicopters and all other weapons), to the whole world in any other language than American English.

I won't mention here the English language itself is a huge industry, namely money!

You missed the part of my post that stated that there are courts where you can argue a case in Spanish...

Regardless...you claimed that the U.S. is a monolingual geography. It is not. Yes, English continues to be the dominant language. I never claimed it wasn't. Which is fine, as this is the U.S. But, your previous post stated that it is a monolingual country NOT that English is dominant. If our presidential candidates when campaining for office speak Spanish to try to woo Spanish speaking voters, if our schools provide bilingual education, Spanish & English, if our courts reder verdicts in Spanish, if you are spoken to in Spanish before you hear English in our major cities, if the majority of all documents have two sides..one in English and the other in Spanish then you must recognize that Spanish is NOT a foreign language here and we are NOT a monolingual society as you claim.