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Shame there's no real-world interest in the powers that be to officialize Esperanto.
Si. Esperanto havas problemojn, kaj tio estas la plej gravan.
Esperanto havas problemojn. La Ido estas la solvo :P
French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
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Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
184cm = 6ft
I appreciate the translation, but you should annotate your post, otherwise you risk someone thinking you did it spitefully, as though cm were lesser units. I ~think~ that's why someone downvoted you.
> as though cm were lesser units.
To be fair, a cm _is_ less than a foot
Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#133I say if you want a universal language everyone should learn Latin. Now you won't offend anyone. Except the French.
Joking aside, it's a shame Esperanto didn't catch on. One of its features is that it's fairly easy to learn, unlike something like Latin.
Well it's a growing movement, so it's still catching on. Who knows, it could become popular enough one day.
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#134As a non European I find this hillarious and childish.
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#135Why not arabic? French is kind of obsolete.
Is Arabic the official language of any EU country? Acording to Wikipedia[1], its not. Seems like a bizarre choice for official government business.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...
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Anecdotally I can confirm those stats for Sweden. Some of the things I was blown away by in Sweden are: 1) Everyone's beautiful 2) Everyone's super tall. I'm 184cm and saw multiple women every day that were taller than me, let alone men. In the US it's quite rare for me to see women taller than me. 3) Everyone's rather slim. It's nice to see a population at healthier weights than what I'm used to in the US 4) Not onc…
184cm = 6ft
The irony of this comment on this article is underrated.
Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#137Somehow this made wonder if Esperanto or at least the idea behind it that we can come up with one common language to use worldwide. If that was actually successful we might have less of this nonsense but then again good luck having everyone agreeing on something ... Hmm oh well
I would take English and make it make some sense... It's not horrible, if you make it regular and fix the spelling.
Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#138As a non European I find this hillarious and childish.
It is a typical French thing. Since they don't have a global influence anymore since WW2, all they can do is throw hissy fits.
Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having it as a work language just means that they’ll pout if whatever document they’re sent isn’t in French for the 6 months they are in charge - nothing more. No big deal.
Not really, the article says: > “We will always ask the Commission to send us in French the letters it wishes to address to the French authorities, and if they fail to do so, we will wait for the French version before sending it,” the diplomat said. "Send us French or consider your request to be second-class and ignored until you send us French".
It’s seriously the most French thing ever
Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’
#140The sane thing to do after the Brexit, was to embrace English as main language, since it has not become neutral ground! According to Wikipedia we have: * Germany: 56% English speakers, 14.5% French speakers * Italy: 34% English vs. 19.43% French * Spain: 22% English vs. 11.73% French * Sweden: 89% English vs. 8% French I can't get over how bad this decision is. How can you ignore these kinds of discrepancies? [1] htt…
I'm French and honestly I don't really care that much about that but for some reason if I had to choose, I'd rather have EU things done in German for example than English, that would make much more sense to me (even though I speak some English and really no German).