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5th May 2017, 11:47
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English Language losing importance in Europe.
Juncker: English language is 'losing importance at EU'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39816696 
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5th May 2017, 12:57
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speak up cannot understand a word you are saying mr junkman is you name harold by chance
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5th May 2017, 20:42
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5th May 2017, 21:16
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Throughout the world English is everyone's first or second language. It is the undisputed language of commerce. This is down to a fluke of history. There always had to be some international language.
Of course Junker and co., are aware of this. I find this kind of pettiness, at the UK leaving the EU frightening. It is an insane desperation to believe they can still stop brexit. Yet they cannot come to terms with it.
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5th May 2017, 23:13
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It might be well to repeat that the widespreadedness of English, the principal Language of North America and the Commonwealth, is because it was instrumental in preventing German becoming the lingua Franca.
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7th May 2017, 10:27
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I seem to remember France getting very upset that English would become the predominant language when we joined the EEC. Now they're upset we're leaving.
Fell off my chair laughing when I saw some French politician say, when talking about Brexit, that the French were used to defending themselves. He just forgot to mention that they weren't very good at it! Rob
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5th June 2017, 22:55
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The wonderful thing about the English language is there is always something to take the mickey about.
The Scottish accountant who emigrated to Ausdi in sixties as a ten pound pom, Eric Bogle wrote and sang a hilarious folk song called Silly Slang Song. He also wrote Green Fields of France, the song the British Legion took up a few years ago. Silly slang song by Eric Bogle https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdHNG...3ZCJmeKArnw%3D Do you remember the day that if you said that you were gay It meant with joy that you could sing and shout A fairy was enchanting and dressing up and camping Was something you did with the scouts That care free age when an urgent case of aids Was powdered milk we sent to the Sahara A fruit was something nice to eat a poof was something for your feet And a queen was an old tart in a tiara Chorus: Ah look what we've done to the old mother tongue It's a crime the way we've misused it It's been totally tis woggled, crumb and blonged and golly woggled And we've strangled, mangled frangled and abused it Ah those far off times when a bong meant a chime And a buzz was a noise insecticidal And joint was something between bones and getting really stoned Only happened to bad people in the Bible When if you had a bad trip it meant you fell and broke your hip Cold turkey just meant Christmas at Aunt Dottie's Coke was something that you burned; a smack was something that you earned From your mumzie wumzie when you had been naughty Chorus The years have gone I'm afraid when only eggs got laid And only the rhinoceros got horny Only kangaroos jumped and only camels humped Getting stuffed meant a little taxidermy Swing was for trapezes and Tarzan's chimpanzees Tossing off was something Scotland did with cabers Now it means something quite obscene And heavy ugly scene is any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Chorus CODA: They're only words and words are what we use When we got sod all to say
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29th October 2021, 00:55
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What a load of utter rubbish….. official language of many European industries is English. Siemens, VAG, Alcatel, EoN etc.
Junker speaks ‘horseshit’
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