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Having English as the official language of the EU when England isn’t in the EU would be quite funny.
by lostlogin 4y ago
Having English as the official language of the EU when England isn’t in the EU would be quite funny.
- ithkuil 4y agoIreland and Malta are two EU members where English is one of the official languages.
- riffraff 4y agoBut they picked Irish and Maltese ad their "EU must support it" language, since English was already there. When Brexit was looming there was a bit of a scare that when the UK was gone English would no longer be supported. But luckily the EU institutions were not insane.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agothis kind of thing doesn't happen immediately, English support gone in one generation would be more the thing.
- ithkuil 4y agoIreland would change their request if it comes to it, because practically nobody speaks Irish
- petesergeant 4y agoAccording to Wikipedia, 93% of students in the EU currently learn it at school…
- lostlogin 4y agoIt’s rather humbling how many languages are spoken by individuals there - and my experience is that people there often have other languages in common too.
- spleen 4y agoIreland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as the official language. This is along with the fact that English is lingua franca in EU and wider.
- lostlogin 4y ago> Ireland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as the official language It’s a nitpick to be sure, but shouldn’t it be “ Ireland and Malta are in the EU, both with English as AN official language”
- petesergeant 4y agoSure, although English is absolutely the dominant language in almost all of the Republic of Ireland, where in Malta the situation is similar to the Netherlands, where most people it's just a very proficient second language.
- midoridensha 4y agoWhat other language could the EU possibly use as a common language for communications between member states? English is the only language that you can use everywhere within the union and have a decent chance of being able to communicate with people (and this is true everywhere else in the world too).
- tossaway0 4y agoIt'll finally be the year of the Esperanto lingua franca.
- brnt 4y agoHow so? The US also uses English and not Lakota or some (or multiple) native American languages.