= Сообщение: 10120 из 12491 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Vincent Coen 2:250/1 29 Dec 20 21:47:33 Кому : David Rance 29 Dec 20 21:47:33 Тема : Brexit FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:250/1@fidonet+5feba40a На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5feb2e9a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: UTF-8 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello David!
Tuesday December 29 2020 14:26, you wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:41:10 Gerrit Kuehn -> Karel Kral wrote:
KK>>> I hope English stays still for long time as a working language KK>>> within EU.
GK>> This is something that certainly won't change. The "lingua GK>> franca" is there and it will stay. I didn't even think about this GK>> so far, but actually you're right: Without the UK, from a certain GK>> point of view there is not much of a "apparent" reason to have GK>> English as official EU 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! ;-)
Speakers yes, readers not so much.
Vincent
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