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Article #5016Re: All numeric representation of dates
From: Elizabeth D. Zwicky
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1988 13:47
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1988 13:47
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In article <774@philmds.UUCP> hulsebos@philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos) writes: >Congress also decided that English would the the language of the country, >instead of German. Those in favor of English won with the smallest possible >margin of only _1_ vote. I wonder what the course of history would have been >had German become the US language. I've been sucked into irrelevancy :-) This is a popular fallacy. Actually, the Congress has never (yet) voted about the language of the USA. English just kind of took over. There were still large German-speaking areas until WWII; we're talking large chunks of *states* where public school was taught partially in German. My father grew up in Pennsylvania-Dutch country, and can (barely) remember the change-over. There are still small areas that are German speaking around here in religious communities. Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu!zwicky From: zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates Message-ID: <20981@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Aug 88 13:47:38 GMT References: <1988Aug28.010835.17290@utzoo.uucp> <2882@hubcap.UUCP> <774@philmds.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 16