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

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Arnaud
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> ??? What do the Swiss have to do with all that? What
> vote are you
> talking about?
>
>
> Torsten

****GK: Probably a similar vote to the one which
approved the elimination of German as an institutional
language after WWII.****

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