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From: "Larry A. Warner" <>
Subject: Re: [PABERKS] RE: "You're Dutch"
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:36:35 -0500


This is very interesting BUT, I am wondering why after all these
years that English was the dominate language, it appears that
due to the influx of so many "illegal" people coming into the USA
and taking over the country, the language, WILL become completely
Spanish.
Reason being, many of these people do not want to learn English,
like our parents before us DID.

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:03:19 EST writes:
> In a message dated 1/2/2004 6:43:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> >One bit of history I find interesting is the fact that we would all
> be
> speaking German or Deutsch instead of English, except for a margin
> of one vote.<
>
> This bit of "history" is a nice story but not true. It may seem
> plausible to
> someone living in Pennsylvania, which had a large minority
> population of
> German speakers, but if you consider that some states, such as those
> in New
> England, had almost no German speakers, it doesn't make any sense.
>
> The United States has never had an official" language, including
> English.
> There was no vote in 1776 to make German the official language.
> Congressional
> debate and a vote concerning German probably did take place in 1795
> but dealt
> with translating US laws into German. The proposal to publish laws
> in languages
> other than English was rejected a few months later (perhaps by one
> vote). For
> further details, you can go to the following web site:
>
> http://www.us-english.org/foundation/issues/german.asp
>
> Jim Ensinger
>
> Living in Connecticut and researching my German speaking ancestors
> in
> Colonial Berks County.
>
>
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