LETTER FROM BRUSSELS. Faced with the domination of the English, the French seized the Brexit to try to find its luster. The war of words will take place.
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By Emmanuel Berretta
Published on 01/16/2021 at 11:00 a.m.
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AT barely had the British closed the door to the European Union behind them (to return through the window) that the French rooster raised its crest and called into question the outrageous domination of English with regard to the 24 official languages of the ‘EU. Why should the EU continue to jabber this ‘globish’, a very impoverished version of Shakespeare’s language, when only two Member States, Ireland and Malta, officially use English in addition to Gaelic and Maltese ? Why continue to think in the language of a third country which, after having infused a lot of its …
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