That’s interesting but I would still expect a German to take a breath. To your point, both the UK and US had melting pot scenarios. The former is where the vas

That’s interesting but I would still expect a German to take a breath. To your point, both the UK and US had melting pot scenarios. The former is where the vast majority of the language was defined. You may have guessed correctly that I’m American, but I speak nearly identically to my ancestors in 1776. Likely only losing some colloquialisms and picking up others. Perhaps losing Scottish, Dutch, French, German and Swiss accents. In my family, my g-great grandfather from Munich or Mecklenburg (both apply but I don’t recall which ancestor this was offhand), forbade children from speaking English at the dinner table. He thought they were making fun of him. Sometimes language is less melted and simply dies off.