What language should the EU adopt after Brexit?

[saxitoxin]

Theresa May announced that England will charge £50 billion per year to the EU to use English after Brexit. What should the EU do?

[patches70]

Oh the EU should definitely stop talking. Just shut the f*ck up. In fact, it should pretty much be a rule that every single politician in the world just shut. the. f*ck. up.

[mrswdk]

Germany's going to invade everyone again in about 5 years so they might as well all learn German now.

[DoomYoshi]

American.

[Dukasaur]

I've always wanted to learn Magyar, so I voted for that.

[tzor]

You mean it's not French?

Il doit être français

[notyou2]

No write in option?

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Didn't some like ultra-progressive Europeans invent a language? Shouldn't they be using that one?

-TG

[mrswdk]

Didn't some like ultra-progressive Europeans invent a language? Shouldn't they be using that one?

-TG

Yeah, it's called English.

[tzor]

Didn't some like ultra-progressive Europeans invent a language? Shouldn't they be using that one?

-TG

Nobody speaks that language.

Neniu parolas tiun lingvon.

Up to two million people worldwide, to varying degrees, speak Esperanto.

Ĝis du milionoj da homoj tutmonde, en diversaj gradoj, parolas Esperanton.

It is available through the Google translate function.

Estas disponebla tra la Google traduki funkcio.

Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist from Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire.

Esperanto estis kreita en la malfruaj 1870-aj jaroj kaj fruaj 1880-aj jaroj fare de L. L. Zamenhof, pola-juda okulkuracisto el Bjalistoko, tiam parto de la Rusa Imperio.

[Dukasaur]

No write in option?

How could anything be better than Magyar?

[Symmetry]

The answer is English, but louder and slower. It's the only way to get them to understand.

[saxitoxin]

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker took a swipe at Britain on Friday, saying he preferred to give a speech in French because English was becoming less significant.

"Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe," Juncker told a conference in the Italian city of Florence, drawing laughter and applause from his audience of EU officials, local leaders and Italian students.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brita ... SKBN18116K

and so, slowly but surely, europe is losing importance on earth

[BoganGod]

What a shit lord complete troll post my dear. Obvious that french should be the only choice. The language of love and diplomacy. What could be more perfect? Makes a better choice than english, the bastard child of too many possible fathers.

[mrswdk]

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker took a swipe at Britain on Friday, saying he preferred to give a speech in French because English was becoming less significant.

"Slowly but surely English is losing importance in Europe," Juncker told a conference in the Italian city of Florence, drawing laughter and applause from his audience of EU officials, local leaders and Italian students.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brita ... SKBN18116K

and so, slowly but surely, europe is losing importance on earth

lol, the exact same thought I had when reading his comments. Like anyone cares what a bunch of Andorran aristocrats think about anything.

[Mr_Adams]

Oh the EU should definitely stop talking. Just shut the f*ck up. In fact, it should pretty much be a rule that every single politician in the world just shut. the. f*ck. up.

They suddenly all seem smarter...

[BoganGod]

Put french on the poll, or publicly admit you a racist, bigot, and audiophobe.

[betiko]

Everybody speaks their own language at the EU parliament you fucktards.
By the way, french is the official language in the olympic games and in the world cup.

I know most low life fucktards in here are too stupid to speak more than one language and don't even have a passport. The EU owns your butts!

EU= smarter, more effective, better life quality, higher incomes, higher education, higher life expectancy, more attractive and we're not as fat as you guys.

like... SUCK IT! innit?

[mrswdk]

Is betiko plagiarising a Juncker speech or a French PhD thesis? I can't tell, but seems it could be either.

[saxitoxin]

By the way, french is the official language in the olympic games and in the world cup.

just checked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUW1JikaxQ&t=3m8s - they only tell the athletes to go to starting position in English ("set" not "prêts")

SUCK IT, BETIKO!

[notyou2]

EU= smarter, more effective, better life quality, higher incomes, higher education, higher life expectancy, more attractive and we're not as fat as you guys.

like... SUCK IT! innit?

Pretty sure Canada wins all those categories over the EU. Sweden may be close though. We may be fatter than the average EU member.

[DoomYoshi]

English is the only language dogs understand.

[Symmetry]

English is the only language dogs understand.

Not the dog in Person of Interest. It followed Dutch commands. Capable of defeating advanced Artificial Intelligence, with the help of knee-capping Jesus of course. That was a pretty cool dog.

[DoomYoshi]

I'm pretty sure dutch uses a ton of English loan words, like splinter. I'm still waiting for my cheque for that one. I've given up hope that the Papacy will pay me for all the Latin loan words from English and those damned Greeks keep defaulting on my loans to them.

[Symmetry]

I'm pretty sure dutch uses a ton of English loan words, like splinter. I'm still waiting for my cheque for that one. I've given up hope that the Papacy will pay me for all the Latin loan words from English and those damned Greeks keep defaulting on my loans to them.

It's probably closer to German, IIRC. Most major languages use a lot of English loan words nowadays, but then English is a malleable language, and relatively easy to pick up. The point of the dog's commands though were that they weren't English words, so they were unique commands, not easy to accidentally replicate unless taking down a ring of pot-brownie dealers working out of Amsterdam's notorious cafe syndicates.

Anyway, that's enough about Person of Interest.

Has anyone suggested Esperanto?