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To: marshmallow
"The (European) Community is living largely by the heritage of the Heiliges R.misches Reich, though the great majority of the people who live by it don't know by what heritage they live.
How is it that this statement by his highness didn't set off alarm bells across the world?
2 posted on 07/06/2011 11:49:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It’s German for “Holy Roman Empire.”


3 posted on 07/06/2011 11:51:56 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Olog-hai
How is it that this statement by his highness didn't set off alarm bells across the world?

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4 posted on 07/06/2011 11:57:26 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
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To: Olog-hai
How is it that this statement by his highness didn't set off alarm bells across the world?

Because most of the world doesn't invent offense where there is none. How would you say "Empire" in German?

5 posted on 07/06/2011 12:00:04 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Olog-hai
I take it you don't know much German.
6 posted on 07/06/2011 12:02:08 PM PDT by wideawake
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