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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Language debates in csa.misc?
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 17:24:32 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <17757F4D1S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
- References: <4itad4$kfr@rock101.genie.net> <770.6655T802T491@spots.ab.ca> <13213816@sourcery.han.de>
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- In article <13213816@sourcery.han.de>
- "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
-
- >
- >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.
-
- This is in the sci.lang FAQ, although you could probably also find it
- in the FAQ of the urban legends newsgroup. (For Dutch readers: an urban
- legend is a 'broodje aap').
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