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

Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by gdsdfe on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:05PM (#27452446)

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

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by qsort on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:27PM (#27452765)

> if that was actually successful

It was successful. That language is English, the obvious choice agreed upon by everyone who isn't interested in playing idiotic political games.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by gdsdfe on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:47PM (#27454320)

Yeah for you yes, for others it's synonym with colonialism, and armed invasion.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by qsort on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:13PM (#27454588)

Not sure who's "you", considering I'm not a native speaker. But that's besides the point, conflating the English language with the foreign policy of the United States is exactly the kind of idiotic political game I was talking about.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by hulug on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:08PM (#27455090)

And for me the word "chair" is synonymous with "Mountain Dew", but fortunately it doesn't matter for the rest of the world. A language has nothing to do with some of its speakers.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by anoncake on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:05AM (#27457319)

Not an issue in Europe.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by leke on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:15PM (#27452584)

A single, permanent auxiliary language will never be implemented as long as people can make a repeated choice. Like with this storey, official languages will flip-flop based on power struggles. If there ever was an official auxiliary language though, I would wish it to be Ido.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by Ekaros on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:42PM (#27452961)

I would take English and make it make some sense... It's not horrible, if you make it regular and fix the spelling.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by alpaca128 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:57PM (#27453797)

And the pronunciation. All those inconsistencies are a minefield. Now I'm off eating some Ghoti.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by Koshkin on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:47PM (#27454324)

Or, you could just switch to French!

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by BitwiseFool on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:05PM (#27453214)

Esperanto is the Linux of languages.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mannerheim on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:32PM (#27453514)

That's way too generous. Linux at least dominates in servers and smartphones.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by tygrak on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:02PM (#27453852)

And Linux is much more sensible than Esperanto. It is also very eurocentric, which would be ok in this context. But it really is mostly just romance/germanic language based, slavic and other languages are basically ignored.

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