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

--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> > <fournet.arnaud@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > Torsten
> > > ========
> > >
> > > I remember that the French-speaking Swiss
> Cantons
> > voted against,
> > > but I can't find the reference for all that.
> > >
> > > Arnaud
> > >
> > > ===========
> >
> > ??? 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.****
> >

I believe they had votes every time the place changed
hands and the winning side always won through the
miracle of democracy --or something like that