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[–]Mr9to5 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And if you look at a map of America for “second language spoken” or “language spoke at home” 100 years ago, German was as widespread then as Spanish is now. Such things were posted on reddit a few times.

It’s a postscript to our history in Europe but it captures the tragedy of our situation today.

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