[Monkey Face]

I love to listen to British conversations. From what I understand, though, if the Founding Fathers had had their ways, we would all be speaking German. ;o]

[moose07]

“Founding Fathers had had their ways, we would all be speaking German.”

‘Shudder’.
Guten Tag Ma'am.
Du bist um diese Teile neu.
Fühlen Sie sich glücklich.
Runden em up, Rohhaut.
Steigen Sie Ihr Pferd und trinken die Milch.

No way.. the movies would have been a disaster!

[Scoutmaster]

Speaking German? That would not have set well with Samuel Clemens. That Awful German Language. Or from The Disappearance of Literature:

"The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German."