[Sca-cooks] OT OOP "Official Language" was Seville orange substitutions

[Huette von Ahrens]

Wow!  I was told this story by my Social Studies
teacher in High School, some 38 years ago.  I
assumed that it was true under the reasoning that
a teacher would only teach what was proven.  But
that obviously was true.

Thank you for the heads up.

Huette

--- David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
wrote:
> >Pardon me, the "official language" of the
> United States is English.  It is
> >the language chosen for the conduct of
> government in Congress assembled over
> >200 years ago.  It won out over German by one
> vote.
> 
> It's a good story, but apparently not true:
> 
> ---
> On January 13, 1795, Congress considered a
> proposal, not to give 
> German any official status, but merely to print
> the federal laws in 
> German as well as English. During the debate, a
> motion to adjourn 
> failed by one vote. The final vote rejecting
> the translation of 
> federal laws, which took place one month later,
> is not recorded.
> --
> This is from a fairly detailed account, both of
> the origin of the 
> urban legend about German and of the actual
> history, webbed at:
> 
>
http://www.watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote.html
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc
> www.daviddfriedman.com
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