The role of the English language in the EU, after Brexit

[sun rise]

Esperanto of course.

 

[Estro Felino]

Esperanto of course.

An invented language

 

[Father Heathen]

Sounds rather petty and impractical, but as others have pointed out this can't be a serious suggestion by anyone with actual power.

 

[Altfish]

Is France really trying to ban speaking English in the EU?


As many of you know, some élites (and I underline élites as opposed to the people) did not accept Brexit fully. They did not a have a proper closure.
So they think of banning English as retaliation towards UK, which is the symbol of the Anglophile world (despite Malta and Ireland having English as official language...btw)...after Brexit.

What do you guys think?

It will be the same role as it was before we joined

 

[Estro Felino]

It will be the same role as it was before we joined

As for my language, it is full of anglicisms.
The 98% of the computer vocabulary is in English...not to mention that we also use pseudo-anglicisms.
That is, we use English words for things/people rhat are called differently in English.
For example flight attendant in Italian is hostess (if female) and steward (if male).

 

[Altfish]

As for my language, it is full of anglicisms.
The 98% of the computer vocabulary is in English...not to mention that we also use pseudo-anglicisms.
That is, we use English words for things/people rhat are called differently in English.
For example flight attendant in Italian is hostess (if female) and steward (if male).

English is a world language, mainly, I suspect, because of pop music being predominantly in English

 

[Kooky]

An invented language

All languages are invented.

 

[Estro Felino]

All languages are invented.

English was not made up by a man.
Modern English is the result of a gradual process, that started in the Middle Ages with the Angles and the Saxons, then the Vikings, the French from Normandy.

Esperanto was made up by a man. Arbitrarily.
Who is this man ? God on Earth?
Why should we speak a specific language invented by that man, and not invented by you? Or by me?

 

[Kooky]

English was not made up by a man.

Correct, it was made up by several men and women!

Esperanto was made up by a man. Arbitrarily.
Who is this man ? God on Earth?

It was created by a Polish doctor, L. L. Zamenhof, who believed that a world speaking only a single language would know no war.

Esperanto - Wikipedia

It is one of several so-called "auxiliary languages", languages constructed with the explicit purpose of faciliating intercultural communication and peace.

Why should we speak a specific language invented by that man, and not invented by you? Or by me?

No reason, of course. The reason why we speak the languages we do have nothing to do with the intrinsic merits of any particular language.

Of course, there's also no reason why we can't learn more languages than we already know.
For example, I still haven't bothered to learn a new language despite it being evidently useful for my job, largely due to a combination of laziness and depression.