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In English, unlike German, "1." doesn't mean "1st"/"first".

• telesilla 9mo ago
  I find it ironic that in Europe the defacto language for intercommunication is from a country that chose to disassociate itself from the EU. In all, I think it's great that every EU country uses the English language with all their idiosyncrasies and hell be damned about "proper" english.
  • jacquesm 9mo ago
    English is the lingua franca (hah!) of the business world, on HN any website posted is supposed to be in English, so effectively you are saying that EU digital sovereignty can not be discussed on HN.
  • handelaar 9mo ago
    "Fortunately", that country forced its language onto a number of others who remain in the EU, and one of them conveniently has English as its EU language because another country also speaks its actual primary language.
    • jacquesm 9mo ago
      I actually think that having English as the default language of the EU without England in the EU is kind of elegant, it side-steps the 'natural advantage' problem.
      • nirv 9mo ago
        Exactly. Meanwhile, I have to use the en_DK.UTF-8 system locale as there's no better alternative.
• blell 9mo ago
  You can also tell the guy is German because of the strange hyphen between EU and Sovereignty. :P
  • juahan 9mo ago
    Could be also Finnish!