After Trump's Greenland tariff extortion, Macron is pushing the anti-coercion instrument, parliament has suspended ratification of July's surrender deal, and even Starmer is saying enough is enough.
A round-up of reactions from European leaders in response to Trump’s tariff threats.
Sure, let everyone fire up the translator engine instead of immediately understanding each other. Takes more effort, thus makes it harder to understand each other.
And we should really like more understanding, not less.
It really doesn’t matter what the common language is, but it makes sense to have one, and we already have English now. We can also think to change that (there is Esperanto), but there’s really no super major reason to do it, it’s not like by using English we support the US or by using Dutch we now support the Netherlands. It’s just a way of communicating, as long as we’re able to do it easily, let’s just do that.
Also, even though the UK exited the EU, it still lies in Europe. The language still originated in Europe. Ireland also uses English.
Het is vrij matig, dat de enige manier als Europeanen, met elkaar te praten, hamburger taal is. Juist nu.
Sure, let everyone fire up the translator engine instead of immediately understanding each other. Takes more effort, thus makes it harder to understand each other.
And we should really like more understanding, not less.
It really doesn’t matter what the common language is, but it makes sense to have one, and we already have English now. We can also think to change that (there is Esperanto), but there’s really no super major reason to do it, it’s not like by using English we support the US or by using Dutch we now support the Netherlands. It’s just a way of communicating, as long as we’re able to do it easily, let’s just do that.
Also, even though the UK exited the EU, it still lies in Europe. The language still originated in Europe. Ireland also uses English.
Cur non lingua latina?
Instämmer.
Of je gebruikt fish-en-chips engels en eindigt woorden met -our, -ise, etc.
Naja, ich sehe es lieber als “Euro English”.
Ça a l’air d’être copium ! Nous avons besoin une véritable langue continental, ou on tous doit parle anglais avec une accent irlandais.
L’anglais d’Irlande est tres beaux ! Mais, ma français n’est pas beaux…
Ik nomineer Nederlands oder Deutsch
Friesisch. Kann fast keiner, deswegen fühlt sich kaum jemand auf den Schlips getreten, und es ist fast wie Englisch.
Bûter, brea en griene tsiis!
WTF is green cheese
Brząśluk śwędrzy czopliwą gręńskotą wźniuka!