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 franca" GK>> is there and it will stay. I didn't even think about this so far, GK>> but actually you're right: Without the UK, from a certain point of GK>> view there is not much of a "apparent" reason to have English as GK>> official EU language, anymore. :) DR> I hadn't thought about that either. I don't suppose that the DR> remaining twenty-seven countries would ever agree on which it should DR> be. If English was chosen because it was the most widely spoken DR> language in the world,
Yes, due to India - most people there still use it as one of two native languages, and the next significant part of them use it as the only one.
DR> then Spanish should be the next choice.
Why not Chinese? It's the second by the number of speakers, and that number continues to grow.
DR> I heard once that the number of Spanish speakers worldwide is greater DR> than even English. But I was told that by a teacher of Spanish! ;-)
I'd guess that teacher was a native Spaniard :-)
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii
