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Tesseraction posted:Being fair the same can be said of English. Dutch is a gutter dialect of Frisian
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So what we're saying is those Frisian fucks have a lot to answer for?
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Dutch is a dialect of Frisian (language). English is a dialect of Frisian (dairy cattle).
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Guavanaut posted:Dutch is a dialect of Frisian (language). English is a dialect of Frisian (dairy cattle).  So what you're saying is, EU working language should be either Frisian or Esperanto
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Guavanaut posted:Dutch is a dialect of Frisian (language). English is a dialect of Frisian (dairy cattle). https://youtu.be/OeC1yAaWG34?si=lBhLnb-1co3okCJ-
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suck my woke dick posted:
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introduce latin imo, do it all old-style
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There's always Interslavic...
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V. Illych L. posted:introduce latin imo, do it all old-style
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I thought Strictly Ballroom disproved that.
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English is a weird mess of a language, but it's way too late to change to something else now, so I'm fine with it staying the lingua franca. We just need to decouple it from its British and American association. Do some minor language reforms and call it 'European English' and then teach that in schools, instead of British English. In a generation or two, rename it to something other than English. Like 'Europenese' or 'Brusslish'. If we have madmaxed by then we could also go with something really weird like 'the ancient island tongue' or 'the common brit jabber'.
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Well there is International English which excludes Britishisms and Americanisms. You encounter it regularly in the Commonwealth.
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Tesseraction posted:Well there is International English which excludes Britishisms and Americanisms. You encounter it regularly in the Commonwealth. Hmm, I don't think so I quite know what this is. Could you give few examples
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GABA ghoul posted:English is a weird mess of a language, but it's way too late to change to something else now, so I'm fine with it staying the lingua franca. We just need to decouple it from its British and American association. Do some minor language reforms and call it 'European English' and then teach that in schools, instead of British English. In a generation or two, rename it to something other than English. Like 'Europenese' or 'Brusslish'. If we have madmaxed by then we could also go with something really weird like 'the ancient island tongue' or 'the common brit jabber'.  ?Because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English
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Eulish.
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GABA ghoul posted:English is a weird mess of a language, but it's way too late to change to something else now, so I'm fine with it staying the lingua franca. We just need to decouple it from its British and American association. Do some minor language reforms and call it 'European English' and then teach that in schools, instead of British English. In a generation or two, rename it to something other than English. Like 'Europenese' or 'Brusslish'. If we have madmaxed by then we could also go with something really weird like 'the ancient island tongue' or 'the common brit jabber'. this is pure pessimism, low-energy approach
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a wholesale crusade against the english language would be one thing which could make me rethink my contempt of the EU as a project
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V. Illych L. posted:a wholesale crusade against the english language would be one thing which could make me rethink my contempt of the EU as a project Ihan hyvä ajatus, mutta mikäs kieli sen tilalle sitten? Ei väldesti helppoa saavuttaa yhteisymmärrystä tästä imo
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V. Illych L. posted:a wholesale crusade against the english language would be one thing which could make me rethink my contempt of the EU as a project
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In fairness, you can understand both sides of that even if you grew up in eg the Niederrhein in Germany.
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jaete posted:Ihan hyvä ajatus, mutta mikäs kieli sen tilalle sitten? Ei väldesti helppoa saavuttaa yhteisymmärrystä tästä imo Suomi olisi epäämättä paras kieli, koska se saisi ruotsalaiset tolaltaan.
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Yes, that's what I'm talking about. But it needs to have a lot more strange idiosyncrasies that annoy Brits and Americans. Annoying them is something we Europeans could bond over and form a common identity around. Like, a cell phone could be called a 'handy' in Europe and when you want to express that something is unacceptable that would be a 'total no-go'. Something ridiculous like that. And it needs to be standardized and prescriptive and taught in schools.
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Oh, that's a great idea. Watching football on a big screen in a public park with a hundred people could be called a "public viewing". Also, the device to project an image to the screen could be called a "beamer".
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Need not being evil thinking to make confusion aimingly. We only need to hold easy farm reason rules we learned on basic school so we all understand
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As the only EU members using English normally it should be restricted to Hiberno-English of Ireland or Maltenglish of Malta. 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's time to make Danish the universal language. 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's time to make Danish the universal language. Denmark/Population posted:5.857 million (2021) How Many People Speak Danish, And Where Is It Spoken? posted:Danish is spoken by 5.4 million people in Denmark, and 5.6 million people worldwide. Danish isn't even the universal language in Denmark. (Besides, everyone knows that the universal Euro language should be Welsh, because it doesn't favour any existing EU member and a room full of people speaking Welsh is a good way to annoy the English.)
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 Now, I'm not saying, but… Ich sachs ja nur.
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Guavanaut posted:Danish isn't even the universal language in Denmark. Not anymore
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English as a language most people knowmeant that whenever I've traveled in Europe if it easy to interact with people outside Portugal or Spain. And even when I traveled to non EU countries like Romania, bulgaria(before becoming eu) most people knew some. The place where I'd have a 50/50 chance was Russia but normally that meant the person next to them knew English. Now in America if they don't know English they likely know Spanish which I know. What I'm saying is that having a common foreign language has a lot of good uses
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Celexi posted:English as a language most people knowmeant that whenever I've traveled in Europe if it easy to interact with people outside Portugal or Spain. And even when I traveled to non EU countries like Romania, bulgaria(before becoming eu) most people knew some. The place where I'd have a 50/50 chance was Russia but normally that meant the person next to them knew English. the counterpoint, of course, is that english in particular is the hideous tounge of fools, savages and knaves, and what is worse yet yanks
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V. Illych L. posted:the counterpoint, of course, is that english in particular is the hideous tounge of fools, savages and knaves, and what is worse yet yanks They said, writing in English.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:They said, writing in English. It's just badly typed French.
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GABA ghoul posted:Yes, that's what I'm talking about. But it needs to have a lot more strange idiosyncrasies that annoy Brits and Americans. Annoying them is something we Europeans could bond over and form a common identity around. Like, a cell phone could be called a 'handy' in Europe and when you want to express that something is unacceptable that would be a 'total no-go'. Something ridiculous like that. And it needs to be standardized and prescriptive and taught in schools. Guavanaut posted:Danish isn't even the universal language in Denmark.
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I unironically suggest universal pakkoruotsi. The shock ought to give Purra and Halla-Aho terminal brain aneurysms which alone would be worth it.
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The Swedish empire, come to glory at last
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A Buttery Pastry posted:But Danish would be a good way to annoy everyone, including Danes. I suspect Romani would more effectively piss off all the right people.
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Baby steps, people. First we need to mandate in Eurovision that the acts can only be sung in native language(s) of the country. To remove Irish advantage of using commonly known English, they can only sing in Gaelic. UK's language advantage of using English doesn't matter one bit because they'd still be performing the UK's act.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:We shouldn't take a single cue from the Englishmen of Europe. Danes inability to understand poorly pronounced Danish amazes me.
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I swear, Uti Vår Hage lives rent-free in so many peoples head. It’s not even their best sketch either.
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