[CommerceComet]

I knew a guy who got a scholarship that required a foreign language proficiency. He put down Australian.

[Verginius Rufus]

Australian, not to be confused with Austrian. Obama thinks there is an Austrian language.

I've seen on the 1920 US census some immigrants from Austria-Hungary putting down "Austrian" for the language spoken at home when they were children. A census official then struck out "Austrian" and wrote "German." The immigrants did not speak German.