Estonia is a place for independent minds

Re:Estonia is a place for independent minds by gumby on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:54PM (#19676260)

If Brexit happens English will no longer be an official language of the EU. Other countries where it is officially used have nominated another of their official languages as their "EU" language (IE: Irish Gaelic; MT: Maltese).

I agree that English would be a brilliant choice for EE but I suspect the Russian-speaking minority would be perturbed.

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Re:Estonia is a place for independent minds by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:17PM (#19676443)

> Other countries where it is officially used have nominated another of their official languages as their "EU" language (IE: Irish Gaelic; MT: Maltese).

That might change. The presence of England, which can't choose anything but English, means Ireland can costlessly designate Irish for reasons of ethnic pride. But almost nobody in Ireland can speak it -- without a ringer to choose English, Ireland could be forced into designating that instead.

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Re:Estonia is a place for independent minds by jfk13 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:34PM (#19676589)

Are you sure? From the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio..., it looks to me as though Irish and Maltese supplement, not replace, English for the respective countries.

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Re:Estonia is a place for independent minds by gumby on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:47PM (#19676683)

Turns out there's a topical section on a wikipedia Brexit page about this very issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_Brexit_on_the_Europe...

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