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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 58592
Date: 2008-05-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> > 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.
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> I hadn't heard about that vote. I can't find it in Wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine
> Tell me about it.
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> 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.
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> Arnaud
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??? What do the Swiss have to do with all that? What vote are you
talking about?


Torsten