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Re: NOTICE of REVOKATION
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 20 Nov 2000 01:05:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ardjan Besse writes:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 05:18:54 GMT, "Larry Pieniazek"
> <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
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> > B) if we hadn't been independent, and thus a major power in our own right,
> > and subsequently able to save the day, twice, the Queen would be speaking
> > German. Or Russian.
Queen Victoria and Albert probably were speaking German. :-)
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> If those guy in 17xx voted for the other language to use as national
> language, you all would be speaking german. 8-)
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> (AFAIK, there was a voting once to determine which language to use as
> national language, and english won by just one vote against german..)
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> Ardjan
I thought that was in a single state, not the whole country. Gosh, though,
that would be amazing to have the whole country not stumbling over my last
name (but then again, like I should complain when compared with Larry's
moniker. At least I can get people in the ballpark by saying the rules of
English apply to my name).
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) The difficulty of my last name is vastly overblown... (...) Mine too. But no one believes me. If you just use every letter in my last name, in the order that they are present, you'll get close enough as makes no difference to the correct (...) (24 years ago, 20-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) If those guy in 17xx voted for the other language to use as national language, you all would be speaking german. 8-) (AFAIK, there was a voting once to determine which language to use as national language, and english won by just one vote (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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