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As a French dude, I've always dreamt of a more unified European culture. As in producing movies, TV shows with European money, catering to a European audience.

As a French dude, I've always dreamt of a more unified European culture. As in producing movies, TV shows with European money, catering to a European audience. England already produces some more-than-decent TV shows as it is. We should also make English the official language, that would help us all move forward.

wolfgke 14y ago
> We should also make English the official language, that would help us all move forward. We should better create an entirely new artificial official language so that nobody feels discriminated.
- conradfr 14y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto ?
- VeejayRampay 14y ago
  Nah. English is an easy language, taught in a vast majority of high schools in Europe, the Northerners already all speak it perfectly, it has Latin roots and Germanic roots, it's fairly neutral, used by the US and Canada and is so far the de facto language of business. We should invest in English. I've wanted English to be a mandatory second language after your native one in all of Europe for a while. Also creating languages never works, see Esperanto and all those ridiculous lab-synthetized languages that pretend to solve all the problems and all end up showing the very same bias it was trying to avoid in the first place (Esperanto for example is WAY easier for a romance-family speaker than for say a dude from Poland).
  - eli_gottlieb 14y ago
    Please no. The world's languages are already being killed-off by English a little too quickly.
    - klausjensen 14y ago
      Good thing. Inability to communicate in a common language is a huge barrier for development, peace and understanding global issues.
- jarek-foksa 14y ago
  If I were to design a new international language I would take the vocabulary and grammar from Basic English [1] and modernize the writting system to be fully phonetic. Still, I'm afraid that such Newspeak-like language could be implemented only in some totalitarian dictatorship, so I hope that it won't happen any time soon... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English
riffraff 14y ago
they do them some times, think eurovision, or the (IIRC) french-german production of the borgias' story. And I must have a seen a thousand things co-produced by Canal+. Anyway, I really miss jeux sans frontieres :(

wolfgke 14y ago

> We should also make English the official language, that would help us all move forward. We should better create an entirely new artificial official language so that nobody feels discriminated.

conradfr 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto ?
VeejayRampay 14y ago
Nah. English is an easy language, taught in a vast majority of high schools in Europe, the Northerners already all speak it perfectly, it has Latin roots and Germanic roots, it's fairly neutral, used by the US and Canada and is so far the de facto language of business. We should invest in English. I've wanted English to be a mandatory second language after your native one in all of Europe for a while. Also creating languages never works, see Esperanto and all those ridiculous lab-synthetized languages that pretend to solve all the problems and all end up showing the very same bias it was trying to avoid in the first place (Esperanto for example is WAY easier for a romance-family speaker than for say a dude from Poland).
- eli_gottlieb 14y ago
  Please no. The world's languages are already being killed-off by English a little too quickly.
  - klausjensen 14y ago
    Good thing. Inability to communicate in a common language is a huge barrier for development, peace and understanding global issues.
jarek-foksa 14y ago
If I were to design a new international language I would take the vocabulary and grammar from Basic English [1] and modernize the writting system to be fully phonetic. Still, I'm afraid that such Newspeak-like language could be implemented only in some totalitarian dictatorship, so I hope that it won't happen any time soon... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

riffraff 14y ago

they do them some times, think eurovision, or the (IIRC) french-german production of the borgias' story. And I must have a seen a thousand things co-produced by Canal+. Anyway, I really miss jeux sans frontieres :(