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Clearly a translation from English. Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is

Clearly a translation from English. Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English). But also, it's amazing that the EU can function at all with the amount of criticism it gets if every single little communication is not perfectly tuned for every potential European reader. :-/

octo888 1y ago
> Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English). Did you mean "no native English speakers"? There are - Ireland. "First" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I'm sure you well know there are 2 official languages in Ireland, and English is used by the majority of the population, and English-only speakers far outnumber the fluent bilingual speakers. Of course on paper Ireland are going to hold Irish as supreme (which I support), but de facto and practically, the language of Ireland is English. Ireland and Malta still remain EU members whose official languages include English. More over, the lingua franca of Europe is still English, despite any French sadness that it's not French any more.
papower 1y ago
I suspect that will be news to most (97%) of Irelands population :-) Ireland is very much an English speaking country with Irish coming a distant second despite both being 'official' languages and the latter being our traditional tongue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio... https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressreleases/pressstatementcensus2022resultsprofile8-theirishlanguageandeducation/ https://www.cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pressreleases/2023pressr...