Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Subject: [tied] Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists



> The next point is that Alsatia, which had voted to become French
> long ago, had been stolen from France after the 1870 war,
> and this is the cause for the next war.

I hadn't about that vote. I can't find it in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine
Tell me about it.


Torsten
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I remember that the French-speaking Swiss Cantons voted against,
but I can't find the reference for all that.

Arnaud

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