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[-] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Well... there WAS a point in time where english could have been replaced by German as THE international language...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I think this factoid gets spun out of proportion. Iirc German could ve become the language of science or one field of science. But it was never a contender for the language of trade or diplomacy (the latter being held by french for a long time).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

This was more a tongue-in-cheek reference to a time period from roughly the late 30s to the mid 40s of the last century... but of course you are correct ๐Ÿ˜‰

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