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2005-02-25 Europe

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-25 2:00:08 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just switch to the language of Belgium. I think it's called "Belch".

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-02-25 3:24:11 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-02-25 3:24:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 No mention of that second language that many of them have in common -- English.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-25 3:27:16 PM|| 2005-02-25 3:27:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem has taken on such proportions that ambassadors from all 25 EU countries were set to discuss it Friday.

The discussion will be held in English.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-25 3:30:50 PM|| 2005-02-25 3:30:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This is where we'll be if businesses and government agencies increasingly pander to different linguistic groups (I understand that California's utility companies are including more and more languages on their bills lately?)

Every bill translated into 192 languages, every person in court demanding courts provide them (free of course) with translators, every road sign in every spoken language in the country, every instruction manual for appliances in every language spoken on earth...don't open that Pandora's box, Europe. Most of you are multi-lingual. Find the most common language between you and stick to it.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-02-25 3:38:10 PM|| 2005-02-25 3:38:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Esperanto

Posted by Rodney King 2005-02-25 3:43:59 PM|| 2005-02-25 3:43:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 you joke about 192 languages - but you aren't far off. In the San Diego City Schools District, I think I heard at one time there were over 180 languages represented. That's what finally killed the bilingual industry. The Spanish speaking saw that the other children learned English faster, better and integrated more easily.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-25 3:45:57 PM|| 2005-02-25 3:45:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 What's Esperanto for Pinata Rodney?

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-25 5:27:30 PM|| 2005-02-25 5:27:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 A couple years back the Swiss, a confederation made up of French, Italian, German, and Latin based fourth language, directed the second language to be taught in all schools would be English. The government recognized that it had become the common language of business, science, medicine, transportation, etc. To be effective in the future world [vice the old one], its citizens needed to be functional in English, much to the agony of the French speakers.

Posted by Thavins Thavirt9269 2005-02-25 5:49:13 PM|| 2005-02-25 5:49:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Gee, the Germans tried with with how many wars, when they could have merely waited for a Commission to do it?

Posted by Pappy 2005-02-25 7:43:27 PM|| 2005-02-25 7:43:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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