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

Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by NovemberWhiskey on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:17PM (#27452609)

Bear in mind, this kind of French bloodymindedness is why we have "UTC" - because if they couldn't have "temps universel coordonné" (TUC) then we damn-sure weren't going to have "coordinated universal time" (CUT).

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mywittyname on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:26PM (#27453455)

UTC works out better anyway. TUC and CUT are both terrible choices. With UTC the focus is on Universal Time and nobody cares what the C is for.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by anticensor on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:36AM (#27458387)

Universal Time as Coordinated

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by billyruffian on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:17AM (#27458273)

The UTC abbreviation was made as a compromise between french and english[1] rather than bloody-mindedness from any one nation. This was back in the day when such compromises could be reached without rancour.

For an example of the daft amounts of human life expended on examples of such trivialities, look at the amount of effort spent on arguing if the Concorde airplane should terminate with or without an 'e'.[2]

[1] https://www.space.com/what-is-utc.html

[2] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinet-office-100/the-s...

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by pyuser583 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:58AM (#27457254)

I did not know this was a thing! Fascinating!

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