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>This isn't about changing the native language to English, France gets to keep its French language Ireland kept its Gaelic language. And nobody speaks it.
by Bayart 5y ago
>This isn't about changing the native language to English, France gets to keep its French language
Ireland kept its Gaelic language. And nobody speaks it.
- cinntaile 5y agoThat development took 2 centuries, that's a pretty normal evolution to be honest. Languages grow and die organically. Also I fail to see how this would impact the usage of French in France if the official language within the EU institution is English? The EU as an institution is comprised of a couple of thousand people from all over the EU, it would have no impact whatsoever on French as a spoken language. French is no longer the lingua franca, English is and therefore it makes more sense to use English as the common language within the EU institutions. Anything else is political currency as you so aptly mentioned.