Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

German cool. Internet sandbox, as a sensitive barometer, long caught this fact, and he uses it in full. In fact, the length of German words will not seem unusual only native speakers. Here in Europe, except that the Finns can make an attempt to compete. A high number of consonants and their unpredictable combinations allows to describe to describe the sounds of the language of Goethe very subtle nuances of mood. Grammar is also quite complex - conjugation of verbs, declension of adjectives and nouns, in general a nightmare for non-linguists.
But imagine, because the world today could be the German-speaking.
At the time, none other than Benjamin Franklin was concerned about the penetration of the German language and culture in the English-speaking environment. & Quot; Why should we tolerate the dominance of the Palatine Boers in our settlements. They get off together and introduced their language and manners, and our displaced. Why founded the British colony of Pennsylvania to become a colony of aliens? Soon they become so numerous that they onemechat us (and not we them). They never take our English language, customs and our appearance & quot;
Legend has it that in 1795, during the Continental Congress lacked only one vote to German became the official language of the United States. Then were offered choices - English, French, German and Hebrew. And that voice just is not filed Frederick Muhlenberg, Congressman from Pennsylvania, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, an ethnic German. In fact, he strongly defended the position that immigrants, both German everyone else, must assimilate and learn English. And the reason for creating the legend gave petition farmers from Virginia to transfer some US laws into German.