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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by gambiting on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:07AM (#45745234)
Well I can only assume that when UK departed the EU, English wasn't removed automatically even though no country remaining in the EU nominates it as their official language of choice.
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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by OJFord on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:22AM (#45745886)
The UK was not a founding member of the EEC which preceded it, I don't know and haven't easily been able to find out, but it wouldn't be that surprising if the European Parliament already used English as a common language for policy etc.

(In fact to strengthen that probability, if it had been say French, when and why would it have switched go English? Just because the UK joined?)

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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by ranc1d on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:31AM (#45745977)
Irish and English are both official languages in the Republic of Ireland. Irish is the first official language and English being the second.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2003/act/32/enacted/en/p...

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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by pasc1878 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:46AM (#45746125)
Read the comment I replied to?

It says that each country can only request ONE language. And Ireland requested Irish.

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