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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by w0de0 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:51PM (#27453728)
A language with no literature or culture has no business in the halls of state. Such a language is arguably not even a language in the real sense, but a code. A vernacular is needed - language must live and evolve.
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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by mannerheim on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:43PM (#27454275)
Esperantists have tried, creating a pale imitation of the real thing, as if culture were something you could bootstrap by mixing the right ingredients as you would some sort of cake.
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