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Well, this was 4 days ago, Spain in talks with Germany regarding the addition of official languages: https://www.politico.eu/article/catalan-basque-galician-bo

• foxglacier 1y ago
  If you can't find a common language within your own country, you shouldn't get to be one country.
  • victorbjorklund 1y ago
    Go back and tell the founding fathers of america that. Not everyone in america was english speakers.
    • coldtea 1y ago
      No, but everyone in the US was made, practically and in some ways officially, to become an english speaker.
      • Symmetry 1y ago
        They're children were taught in schools that ensured that they learned English but many adult immigrants never learned to speak English. Carnegie Steel used to try to avoid having too many workers with a common language as part of a strategy to make unionization more difficult. And when Norman Borlaug was growing up in Saude, Iowa in the 1920s there were still a lot of older people around who only spoke Norweigen.
      • rvba 1y ago
        I think English was not set as an official language since... Trump? It was the de facto language, but not the official language. What was baffling.
      • victorbjorklund 11mo ago
        yea, when did they make the law forbidding german speakers speaking German? Which year?
  • darkwater 1y ago
    I guess you are siding with the Catalans that want to be an independent country, then.
  • wasmitnetzen 1y ago
    The line between a language and a dialect is far too murky for this rule to be of any use.