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- References: <4itad4$kfr@rock101.genie.net> <770.6655T802T491@spots.ab.ca>
- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:19:44 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Language debates in csa.misc?
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- In Article <770.6655T802T491@spots.ab.ca>, Adam Hough <adamh@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
- > >>>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.
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > Not quite. The vote to propose German as the official language lost by one
- > vote, not the vote to make it the official language.
-
- According to my information this is a myth. There was such a vote, in
- Pennsylvania if I remember correctly, but the decision to turn down German
- language was not made by just one vote.
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