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

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > 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
>

Keep in mind that France stole Alsace from Germany c.
1700, which set off a wave of Protestant refugees to
Germany, including many French-speaking Huguenots
among them. Most probably ultimately ended up the US
but many went to Prussia and took their animosities
with them.