KK>> I hope English stays still for long time as a working language within KK>> EU.
GK> This is something that certainly won't change. The "lingua franca" is GK> there and it will stay. I didn't even think about this so far, but GK> actually you're right: Without the UK, from a certain point of view GK> there is not much of a "apparent" reason to have English as official EU GK> language, anymore. :)
I hadn't thought about that either. I don't suppose that the remaining twenty-seven countries would ever agree on which it should be. If English was chosen because it was the most widely spoken language in the world, then Spanish should be the next choice. I heard once that the number of Spanish speakers worldwide is greater than even English.
But I was told that by a teacher of Spanish! ;-)
David
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