Re: English language-Airlines

Nik muttered....

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> "Olivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Nik muttered....
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>> > "Olivers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >> One would reasonably conclude that although it might be "news to
>> >> you" that in possessions such as German Southwest Africa, the
>> >> colonial adminsistrators spoke German, all official documents and
>> >> transactions were in German, and that it was the official
>> >> language. 
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>> > Is this statemets of known facts or simply your speculations (you
>> > use the term "reasonably conclude")?
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>> Why pray would you doubt that German was the "official language" of
>> German Southwest Africa?
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> - sip -
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> [more speculation by a person who due to lack of arguments raises his
> voice to compensate]
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> Because they got in the business rather late compared to the English
> and the French. The Danes had very few colonies and I doubt that many
> on the one or two islands in the Indies ever learned the language. I
> would expect that the colonial language here was English. I have no
> idea of German West Africa. I know a little about Papaya New Genie and
> I have a sister who have been living in Tanzania for a few years. I
> have yet to hear any traces of the German language in these areas.
> 
Well, rest assured, Nik, in German Southwest it was german and in what 
became tanzania, what written records remain were in germn.

You posed the question re: "official language".  If you're so desperately 
dense (as it has so often appeared) to presume that the German 
adminsitrators/colonial bureaucrats carried on their business in another 
language, I suggest you make some reasoned argument in that behalf.  To 
date, reasoned argument seemingly being far beyond the your scope, I ain't 
woroid.  That your relatives encountered no remainders or reminders of 
German is only proof that the German colonial overlay was thin (in part 
from being late-coming as you suggest), and that the British effectively 
stamped it out like a fire in stubbly grass, inconveneient but not 
extinguishable

By the way, there's plenty in the "Danish West Indies" to indicate that 
Danish was "official" (just as I would suspect that it remains official in 
Greenland, no matter what vernacular in which the locals, especially 
indigenes use for day to day functions), but then there's plenty in 
Trinidad to suggest Royal Dutch Shell was official...

In a simple rejoinder, let me put it more bluntly....

What the F*ck do you suppose the German bureaucrats and military personnel 
spoke and wrote if not German?

English?

Are you serious, or simply obstinately unaware of reality?