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As Europe criminalizes environmental protest, some activists turn to sabotage in c/[email protected]

Opinion: 'Faced with Musk and Zuckerberg's refusal to comply with European legislation, the Commission seems to be responding with... less regulation' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago

I hate it when THEY bend OUR knees.

Should English stay the lingua franca of Europe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

True

Should English stay the lingua franca of Europe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

German would be nice.

Should English stay the lingua franca of Europe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

I HATE the idea that we would have some Kind of built into us translators. Languages are a crucial part of human development and, therefore, they should be learned in school the old way. (Ofc school must also evolve)

Should English stay the lingua franca of Europe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (10 children)

Almost all languages have a very big number of words derived from Latin or French. For example Polish, which is a slavic language, has so many of Latin or French rooted words.

Esperanto apart, I think that German should be the language od Europe, because is it simply the biggest language of the EU. It is also precise. Ofc it could get simplified, because for many der/die/das is too complicated or it is too much of a hustle to remember. German could get more logical with them and then it should be no problem for everyone.

We could also think about regianal lingua-francas. For example, it could be this way that in the region of romance languages, everyone would speak French, in the region of germanic - German and in the region of slavic - Polish. Simply the biggest languages in a given region.