>Tru,
(Tja, dann wozu Dein Einwand! :))
>but it's more heterogeneous than most Europeans imagine.
You've got no idea of what I imagine and what I know of N-Amer.
(On top of that: a considerable part of the population of
my county emigrated between 1880-1920 to Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan and Illinois; some people returned home, and went
back, some after decades; some people, as my paternal grandpa,
didn't go back.)
>At least than I did.
It is. Or, better said, it should be since the population is made
of almost all "races" in the world. But the English language in
the US is almost uniform even compared with that spoken in UK and IRL,
let alone when compared with the differenciations within such lan-
guages as French, German, Italian, Spanish. In various regions, German
dialects are so different from one another, that, if there were no
"Hochdeutsch" as a common standard German (understood by everybody),
certain German communities would have to invent another "Hochdeutsch"
or resort to some of the "Weltsprachen", such as English or French.
(In the middle ages, the intelligentsia had such a language: Latin.
That explains some german names such as Fabritius, Molitor, Sütterlin,
namely Latin equivalents of Schmidt, Müller/Miller/Milner, Schumacher.)
Esp. in German regions neighboring Denmark many people grow bi- or
trilingual (low German, Hochdeutsch, East-Frisian or North-Frisian)