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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’

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Post by adenozine »

chrisbennet wrote: post #76
silicon2401 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by gdsdfe »

Somehow 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

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by bonzini »

wrnr wrote: post #41
moomin wrote: post #24

This is a non-story. There are three working languages of the EU: English, French and German. Everyone in Brussels will roll their eyes, use French for six months and then revert to English because it’s the one most people speak. Would they have done this if Brexit hadn’t happened? Yes, they would. France has a chip on its shoulder about French being replaced as the world’s lingua franca, but stunts like this aren’t…

Yes this is political trolling, and should France get it way Hungary will counter troll and insist we adopt their language for 6 months next time around.

Hungarian is not a working language.

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by bawolff »

adenozine wrote: post #101
chrisbennet wrote: post #76

Earlier 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.

At some point people need to stop reading malicious intent into things without evidence.

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by TX0098812 »

madia_leva wrote: post #77
BowBun wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your first point is incorrect: Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Monaco [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/languages/...

Parts of Belgium. Just ~35% of Belgiums are French speakers. Most speak Dutch. Same for Switzerland, most Swiss speak German.

Flemish I think. Although it's pretty similar to Dutch.

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by jkingsbery »

coldcode wrote: post #52

I say if you want a universal language everyone should learn Latin. Now you won't offend anyone. Except the French.

In case there are any other French-reading Latin-philes out there: https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/et-si-la-langue-officiel...

Re: French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’

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Post by Avamander »

chillacy wrote: post #81
mannerheim wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would be the point? Might as well make Klingon an official language.

If Klingon were invented in Europe and designed to be a pan-european easy-to-learn language, sure. Otherwise, Esperanto has some desirable attributes as a universal second language.

"Easy-to-learn" is very subjective. There's a lot of different languages spoken in the EU and the accessibility of a language environment matters.
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