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To: goldsnow who wrote (13278)	7/6/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Goldsnow, even more thanks for that one, you thought of me displaying interest in America all the time. As well I sometimes inquired about the foundations of democracy and state action. I will bookmark your source. To state something else that made the American Revolution different: it was successful - in opposition now not to the French and Russian one, but to the German ones. Up to 1989/90 there was nothing similar to a revolution with success in Germany, although the theoretical bases of state and of justice were frequently reflected upon since the 18th century also here. I think it was even a former president of the FRG who stated: "The History of Freedom in Germany is a history of failed efforts." (or similarly). You also opened the way for a different contribution on the former language discussion. To my knowledge in an early vote on whether German or English should be the National language of the newly founded USA, only 51 per cent supported English (most probably some thought after the independence from England it would be a good idea to make the cultural independence clear as well). How big would be the difference to the current world language situation have been if those 2% had tipped the other way round? The English empire would still have proliferated English to all its colonies around the world. On the other hand the importance of English over Spanish is most probably a reflection of the importance of North America over South America on the World scene - and entertainment market. It is not that I would like German to be a No 1 world language. It is to difficult, and sometimes poor in expression. Also its' standardized form is quite young. English is in those respects much better, being eclectic of several European languages, having an abundance of alternate words for semantic fine-tuning, but using only a subset of syntactics from different languages, makeing it relatively easy for beginners from different native languages to reach the levels of simple and of everyday conversation. Regards, MNI. PS: A side wink for Gustave: Why doesn't French include words from other languages as easily as German takes up English words, and English has taken up from a number of languages?