The Ladies Professional Golf Association (as opposed to the Gentlemen’s Professional Golf Association) has required that all its golf players be fluent in English beginning in 2009. Those players who cannot pass an oral evaluation will become suspended from...

A gadget aimed at facilitating communication between English-speaking restaurant owners and the Spanish-speaking workers they pay under the table is now on the market. And, boy, does it ever sound like a wondrous marvel from the future!: GigaChef.com announces...

Puerto Rico’s New Progressive Party is declaring the island’s Spanish-only voting ballots discriminatory, probably because they see this as a good way of ensuring Puerto Rico becomes the language-obsessed U.S.’s 51st state: A Spanish-only ballot discriminates against 14 percent...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But we think, sometimes, it’s worth stabbing yourself in the eye with a fork. That should totally not dissuade you from captioning this Texas protester, though. We mean, we would,...

Peter Paul Olszewski Jr, a judge in Philadelphia, has sentenced four men charged with robbery to… learn English! Hmm, it will likely not help them pronounce “Olszewski” correctly on the first try, sir: The unusual sentence requires that the...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has taken steps to eradicate English from businesses, asking his country’s phone company workers to use Spanish equivalents of Anglo-dominated business and technical phrases like “Crazy Language Nazi:” Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized...

One Texas mom is insisting her daughter sit out on mandatory Spanish classes in school because she feels learning Spanish sends a message that it’s ok for immigrants not to learn English: Ashleigh and her mother, Leigh Allison, say...

A glitch in Google Translate converts “I will miss Heath Ledger” to “Voy a perder Tom Cruise.” If only. Cue maniacal laughter… now: This looks like a simple bug in the system, perhaps the work of a bored Googler...

We don’t normally associate with the help. They’re meek and have small hands and smell like strange, foreign foodstuffs. But, sometimes, it’s necessary. So thank goodness we have this handy lesson guide to teach us how to tell our...

Are you a New York-based Latino? Do you speak words? Well, chances are, you say them in a funny way which makes people laugh and feel also perhaps a little bit afraid of you. A linguistic study conducted by...

Casa D’Ice restaurant, located in beautiful North Versailles, PA, is, as you could probably garner from its name, one of the finer eating establishments one could hope to visit. Not content to merely serve its patrons the finest Italian...

Two masked gunmen who held up a Latino market in South Carolina were kind enough to translate their instructions so that no one would feel left out or ostracized: At about 9 p.m., two men wearing camouflage shirts and...

The Baltimore Sun features a piece today advising us U.S. Americans to resist the “linguistic terrorism” of English-only laws. Mmm linguistic terrorism: Linguistic terrorism has plagued children of immigrants and Native Americans for generations. Alberto Alvaro Ríos wrote in...

Republican Presidential hopeful and affair-haver Rudy Giuliani has been pretty vocal about his thoughts concerning English, i.e. you should speak it. But, hey, even if you don’t, you should still votar por his ass. A Spanish-language campaign endorsed by...

An article in Newsweek touched upon an issue we’ve been thinking a lot about since having to read through word after word of Senator and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo’s anti-Latinos, anti-immigrant, anti-Spanish rhetoric. What place does Spanish have in...

Notably (or not, really) missing from Univision’s Spanish-language Republican debate this past weekend was Senator Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has criticized his fellow candidates for “pandering” to Spanish-speakers who, he says, can’t even vote anyway:...

Have you ever encountered someone who was surprised at how well acclimated you were to life in the United States, miles away from your hut and tribe? All the time, right? Anyway, we’re seriously in love with this bag!...

A new study shows that second generation Latinos in the U.S. tend to speak more and better English than their first generation parents. Like, duh! Beesh, we know we speak English so good: The classic pattern, reported by the...

A group of Spanish-speaking workers have filed a discrimination suit against their workplace, G&C industries, after their employer implemented an “English only” policy at work. Andres Moran, one of the workers, gives us a lesson in geography: According to...

A suit filed against The Salvation Army has sparked a Senate debate over language in the workplace. The discussion prompted Senate Republicans to seek legislation that prevents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing rules against English-only workplaces:...

Bilingual speakers are, apparently, at a loss for when to speak English or Spanish. Life is so complicated: Cuban-born Maria Carreira, the coauthor of two college Spanish textbooks, can glide easily between her native tongue and English. But in...