Churlishness is a clumsy defence. If you do not speak English in the UK, or perchance Welsh in Wales or Gaelic in the Hebrides, you are not going to be a constructive member of a society.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
I’ve just pointed out that Britain doesn’t have an official language. So you’re wrong, aren’t you?
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Als antwoord op @OliverKamm
Keep going. It makes you feel better. The public expects migrants to speak the language of society.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
Hold on: you seem to have backed down from claiming that English is the official language of UK. Correct?
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Als antwoord op @OliverKamm
Where a country has NO official languages then the common sense applies that the language of the vast majority of the population is the analogue.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
Right, so you’ve backed down. That’s all I needed to know.
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Als antwoord op @OliverKamm
Pettyfogging is tedious. The issue stands. If you do not speak the language of the country, de jure or de facto, it's a problem and the population resents it.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
So your initial statement was factually wrong and you now defend prejudice against minorities on morally irrelevant grounds. Take a look at yourself: it’s where anti-foreigner sentiment gets you.
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Als antwoord op @OliverKamm
Hahahahahaha. What lunacy. For the UK English is the de facto official language as a demonstrated by the language of the Court and of government and of the civil service. Half my family is Chinese. Prejudice against minorities? What a cretin.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
By “de facto official language”, you mean the language of public life. That’s not an official language. Your claim hence was false. If you were a professional journalist, you’d have to acknowledge your error.
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Pettyfogging. Still boring. Still doesn;t change anything.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley @OliverKamm
English derived from Latin
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