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- From: adamh@spots.ab.ca (Adam Hough)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Language debates in csa.misc?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 18:41:21 GMT
- Organization: Achilles Internet Services, Ottawa, ON
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- >>>Though one third of the American immigrants a few hundred years ago were
- >talking german, they missed the general decision to do so in the whole
- >continent only by an inch. Otherwise we all would talk german now.
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- >That is very correct. The common languages in early US history were English,
- >German, and Dutch, all common and very much a part of early American culture.
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- Not quite. The vote to propose German as the official language lost by one
- vote, not the vote to make it the official language.
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- It's a fine distinction perhaps, but German wasn't that close :-)
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- Regards,
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- Adam Hough Under-employed computer bum
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