>>I would suspect that many other countries that are currently wide-spread have a similar origin - one tribe imposing its language upon other tribes.
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>If Hitler had succeeded, the entire world would now be speaking German. That is of course, the purebreds that survived (is there any such thing these days?)
What, purebreds? There never was such a thing.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
