Speak English only in Pahrump, Nevada
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Up until February 2007, it was against the law to speak any language other than English in the town of Pahrump outside of Las Vegas. The law which was enacted in November, 2006 was quickly pulled. Pahrump is known as one of the towns in Nevada where brothel’s (whore houses) are legal.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
why is it called unite states if everyones racist
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Tom Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Learn how to spell dirty Mexican.
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September 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I live in Pahrump first off and I’ve never heard of this law, even though it may have been true.
Secondly why don’t you explain the racism behind this. It’s American to speak English. When you go out and can’t communicate with other Americans something is seriously fukcing wrong.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
are any of these damn things even real???
i mean comeon!!!!
you can call it freedom of speech then say english only!!!
thats…well it friggin communism!!!
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October 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am
dave is right.(that law was passed like 5 yeas ago btw.)if we can’t understand eachother the untied states is divided anyway because of that.
and on a racist note…….. antoinette sounds like a mexican/spanish name to me you probably took englsh as a second language so why should we make it more convienient for you?
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bern Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Antoinette is french. “untied”, “englsh”, “convienient” I think someone else took ENGLISH as a second language!!!
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April 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Dave,
It is not American to speak English. If you were a true American you would know that America does not have an official language. You idiot!
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bern Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 2:19 am
very true. It is not the official language.
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October 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I’m from Pahrump, N.V. and I think it’s an acceptable law. If you are going to choose to live and work in the United States, you should know how to speak English. I wouldn’t got to Mexico and expect to get a job and whatnot and live there if I didn’t know how to speak Spanish. Common sense.
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November 18th, 2009 at 4:11 am
I live in Phoenix where it is in everyone’s best interest to speak Spanish, but…..since English is still the overwhelming language spoken in the USA, it should be encouraged to be spoken. By the way, why do nearly all billboards here have Spanish captions underneath English, but none of the many billboards in Spanish have ANY English captions? What if I were French? Should we also have French captions everywhere?
I have been to Mexico many times, and I use Spanish….period!
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January 2nd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Umm…has everyone forgotten that it is still a requirement to be able to speak English to become a Citizen – and English is the official government language?
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January 3rd, 2010 at 4:28 am
I’m from Las Vegas and this was a big news story when it was being voted on. It isn’t that it’s necessarily illegal to speak other languages, but English is the official language of Pahrump.
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
oh woooow thtis sort of stupid what if the only language spoken in you house in spanish? or french?
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
oooops typo
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March 18th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
When my husband and I went to live in Germany during his tour in the Army, we had to take head start classes and learn their language. We were told,”you are a visitor in their country and you’ll speak their language”. That should apply to everyone who visits or lives in ours! I had to rely on little children to communicate in the classroom for their parents. Live here, learn it! Our road signs should NOT have a foreign language on them either, if you can’t speak it, you sure as hell can’t read it…
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Breanna Reply:
July 14th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I agree.
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June 18th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
you people are all sooo dumb!! I am white and I still think that if people don’t speak English it’s either because they don’t want to deal with idiots like you racist people and secondly they don’t need to learn it because they won’t ever use it! DUMB RACIST people if spanish wasn’t important then why is the government debating on making it an official language next to English!!
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