You think it's odd that in Europe, where the UK/Ireland play a substantial role, that meetings are conducted in English? Especially at tech companies, where US-

You think it's odd that in Europe, where the UK/Ireland play a substantial role, that meetings are conducted in English? Especially at tech companies, where US-based companies play a substantial role in the world? From my experience, English is the common denominator of languages across Europe and tech. Most tech documentation is in English. Regarding your postscript edit, there are many global participants of varying agendas working to disrupt faithful discussion of real issues and it is easy to be misconstrued, so I wouldn't take it personally.