Did German almost become America’s official language in 1795?

[Ouistreham]

So for movement you use Suis and for non-movement you use Ai?

More or less, yes (there are exceptions though).
Same rule in Dutch (Je suis allé = Ik ben gegaan), German (Ich bin gegangen), Italian ((Io) sono andato)
English, Danish and Spanish use only the verb have : I have gone, Jeg har gått, (Yo) he ido.

[CertifiedCracker]

I'm afraid this is more and more as much a urban legend as German being nearly voted official language of the USA.
France (McDonald's largest market after the USA) is crazy about American junk food.
As a consequence, plenty of overweight young girls in schools.

We are actually taught in French class that Europeans, particularly the French, tend to be healthier and thus thinner. Havig known some Europeans over the years, I just dont see where that stereotype came from. And the posh and sophisticated thing is just weird to me. Im not French, but my grandmother is Cajun/Creole, and the thought of French being classy is just so fucking foreign to me lol

[NSXD60]

Does mémère speak the lingo?

[Bobby Martnen]

Never would have happened, nor would it be "German", it would be Dutch. The standard German language that many of us recognise simply as normal German was not the German spoken in America in the 1700s.

Pennsylvania Dutch is a more highly evolved form of German.

[CertifiedCracker]

Pennsylvania Dutch is a more highly evolved form of German.

Ive been exposed to a fair bit of it and it literally sounds like you’re speaking English with a mouth full of Copenhagen.

[Bobby Martnen]

Ive been exposed to a fair bit of it and it literally sounds like you’re speaking English with a mouth full of Copenhagen.

It's like a heavily Anglicized/Americanized version of 18th century West German.

[CertifiedCracker]

It's like a heavily Anglicized/Americanized version of 18th century West German.

And the dialects differ with each county. I learned PA Dutch from Pennsylvania, but I doubt the Mennonites/Amish could understand me where Ive lived because they’re Swiss.