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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Esperanto? The EU?
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:44:05 GMT
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pharder@phoenix.phoenix.net (Dr. Paul H. Harder) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <3klmnn$hk@gryphon.phoenix.net>:
>Pascal MacProgrammer (stevemac@bud.indirect.com) wrote:
>: Not so very long ago, s_salomo@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Thierry Salomon) said...
>: >Do you know that at the beginning of the United states there was a vote
>: >to choose the language they'd use. I heard that for 2 or three more votes
>: >German would have been chosen instead of English. 
>:   You'd be surprised at the number of people who know that, even though 
>: it is not true.
>
>--
>Yes, I've heard this as well.       Jes, mi ankaux jam auxdis cxi tion.
>So is it true or not?   Who         Cxu cxi tio estas vera, aux ne?
>can actually cite some              Kiu vere povas citi dokumentojn?
>documentation?
>
Laux mia memoro, tiu pseuxdohistorio    As far as I can remember, this 
aperis en sci.lang almenaux du fojojn   pseudo-history has appeared in 
en la pasinta jaro. Versxajne temas     sci.lang at least twice in the 
pri vocxdono en la usona sxtato         last year. It apparently has to 
Pensilvanio rilate tion, en kiu(j)      do with a vote in the state of 
lingvo(j) aperu sxtataj dokumentoj.     Pennsylvania about which 
Aux io simila.                          language(s) state documents were 
                                        to appear in. Or something like
                                        that.

Usono neniam elektis oficialan          The U.S. has never chosen an 
lingvon. Gxuste tial oni nun            official language. That's the 
disputas pri eventuala alpreno de       reason why there's an on-going 
konstitucia amendo por oficialigi       dispute about possible adoption
la anglan lingvon.                      of a consitutional amendment to 
                                        officialize English.

La anekdoton mi auxdis de pluraj        I've heard the story from several 
personoj. Gxi aperas i.a. en unu        people. It appears in, among 
el la esearoj de Robert Graves,         other places, one of the essay 
kiu insistis, ke la germana devis       collections of Robert Graves, who 
cedi al la angla pro la demisio de      insisted that German had to yield 
unu germanlingvano -- kiu vocxdonis     to English because of the 
por la hebrea!                          demission of one German speaker 
                                        -- who voted for Hebrew!

-- 
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