Thanks Gunnar for the explanation, I see now where I misunderstood the
GUI.

Jeremy as pretty much hit the point as to what my misunderstanding was.
Let the paraphrase what my intention was choosing this setup. What I
intended to say to Ubuntu was:

"Use the English language everywhere, and if there's a difference
between UK and US English, please utilize the US variant. Only in the
(very rare) cases, where there's *no English translation at all*
available, among all other languages, chose the German translation."

Please tell me how I would indicate this choice with the existing GUI.

To phrase it the other way round: My expectation was that "English (US)"
contains all the usual English strings, with only small variations where
there's a difference between UK and US English.

It's not at all obvious that "English (US)" only contains the strings
that differ from "English". The only way that this language set makes
sense is to *always* chose "English" as the second language. And if this
is so, the content of "English" could as well be included into "English
(US)".

I believe that this should be changed (as Jeremy suggested).

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