Hello Paul,
On Sunday October 13 2019 18:51, you wrote to David Drummond:
Some do, I don't.
Perhaps I should mention that "few" is more accurate than "some".
It would appear that most EU countries may one day meld their local languages into a single Eurpoean langauge.
Wishful thinking. That is not going to happen in my life time. Rge Tower Of Bable is still standing...
I was made aware by an immigrant ~20 years ago that there's little variance in some nation states' languages in the eastern
Mediterranean, also.
To an outsider German and Dutch may sound similar, I can assure you that A Dutch native speaker that has never been confronted with German, will not understand a native german speaker.
Even the Dutch and the people from Flandria sometimes have difficulty undetstanding each other. Dutch and Flamish are supposed to be the same language.
English may yet gain a EU comptetitor, in time... following a Brexit.
;)
Believe it or not, not everyone ine Europe speaks English. Angela Merkel does not. But she speaks Russian...
Cheers, Michiel
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