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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"> <span class="gD">Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span></span><span><span><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a></span></span></p>



<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Genealogy" 2012.07.04 (01) [EN]</span><span></span><span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div class="im">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>




Subject: Genealogy<br><br></div><div class="im">Apparently, at one point
 in history German was so widely used in the USA that some proposed 
making it the national language rather than English.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
This is widely reported, but is based on a misunderstanding of what the 
proposition entailed. What was being suggested was to translate 
important documents into German, to enable German-speaking Americans 
with less-than-fluent English to follow the governmental goings-on. It 
certainly does say something about the strength of the community, to be 
sure, but not quite what it would say if they were suggesting that 
German be used as THE official language.</div>
</div><div><br></div>Best,<div><br></div>Isaac M. Davis</div></div><div style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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