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With brexit we may want to use US spelling, just to piss m off. Also with brexit, the only country in the EU that speaks English is Ireland, and even they pref
by cies 6y ago
With brexit we may want to use US spelling, just to piss m off.
Also with brexit, the only country in the EU that speaks English is Ireland, and even they prefer to say they dont.
Finally we can setup English as the language of the parliament, as it no longer favours one country over an other.
- Symbiote 6y agoEnglish is an official language of Malta.
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- ginko 6y agoPersonally I'd be in favor of a full orthography reform so you can actually write English like it is pronounced.
- wl 6y agoWhich pronunciation would you codify? And we'd have to do it all over again in 200 years.
- ginko 6y ago> Which pronunciation would you codify? How the average German fluent in English pronounces it.
- _pmf_ 6y agoZiz iz a gud aidi.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoI wonder how that will be possible without using accented letters. English doesn't use them but it seems like it should. E.g. Refuse (deny) / Refuse (trash), Permit (allow)/ Permit (a document of permission), Record (Vinyl)/ Record (to save)
- Rhinobird 6y agodouble a letter to add ephasis or indicate a long vowel. Reefuse / refuse, Permit / Permmit, Record / Reecord
- markvdb 6y agoYou're forgetting at least Malta.
- bloak 6y agoThere used to be the idea that a member state could only ask for one of its languages to be an official language of the EU. If this were true then the EU would have to drop at least one of: English, Irish, Maltese.
- esperent 6y ago> even they prefer to say they dont. What? No we don't. Our official languages are English and Irish. Only something like 100k people speak Irish as a truly first language (as in, they use it more than English in their daily lives). It would take an extreme level of denial for someone to claim that Irish people don't natively speak English and I've never heard anyone say that.
- hiddencache 6y agoMalta too?
- mattmanser 6y agoI love the idea of using US spelling. Even being English myself, I've come to accept that the US spelling is always better. Although they should take y'all out back and shoot it.