It’s not humiliating, Hugo. English is the only truly international language. It’s called “soft power”.https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1093209208995151872 …
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Replying to @JuliaHB1
No, Julia. The humiliating thing is that it's impossible to imagine our politicians doing it back. Even in French.
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Replying to @hugorifkind @JuliaHB1
Why? Spanish or Chinese would be more useful globally ps I speak fluent French
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Replying to @gorgy2308 @JuliaHB1
They're EU politicians. The three most widely spoken first languages in the EU are German, French and English, in that order. Few of our politicians speak more than one of them. Few Continental politicians speak fewer than two.
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Replying to @hugorifkind @gorgy2308
Because they have to. Most of the music, films and TV they grow up with is in English. It’s the language of global business and one of the only two official languages of the EU.
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There are 24 official EU languages. And three procedural languages (English, French, German). But, you know, facts.
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You are quite right, I did mean the working languages and I was wrong to omit German.
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