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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by Chris2048 on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:02PM (#13411675)
In France, not necessarily Paris, or most large French cities.

> French is the national language

And what is the national language of Ireland?

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by umanwizard on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:36PM (#13411891)
In 2017 the national language of Ireland is, in practice, English, whatever their Constitution may say.

In France it's absolutely still French. Many, many people do not speak English well enough to have a conversation.

How is this analogy with Ireland even remotely relevant?

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by Chris2048 on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:44PM (#13411934)
> How is this analogy with Ireland even remotely relevant?

the point is, what is 'official', and what is 'in practice' can differ. Quoting the official language of Ireland says nothing about what actually goes on.

Similarly, The the official language of France says nothing of how easy it is to speak English there, especially in large tech-hubs (the context of this conversation), nor how this might change in the future.

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by igravious on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:46PM (#13411940)
Irish is the national and first official language.

Oh, and some of us speak English too.

Why?

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by Chris2048 on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:52PM (#13411966)
> Oh, and some of us speak English too.

Don't you mean most?

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by igravious on Friday January 20, 2017 @08:09AM (#13443499)
I mean nearly all.
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