Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

English will not be an EU language after Brexit?





No other EU country has English as their official language and so it could lose its status.

(source)

Outside of Germany, who speaks German? What is the point of an official language that only an elite can read?

Are we going back to Medieval Latin Bibles, where the common folk not only couldn't check what the priest class was saying, because only the elite learnt that language, and the comoners were forbidden from printing the sacred texts in their native tongue?

French might be spoken by some older folk in some Asian places (e.g. Vietnam), and to some degree in Africa. I suspect French speakers would still struggle with most ordinary dwellers in those countries, although they might be fine with traders. (source)











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But guess what - they aren't doing much trade in the greater scheme of things. French speaking countries - apart from France - are dirt poor. (source)

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Dialects_of_the_french_language.png
(source)

Dialects of the french language in the world
Date
SourceOwn work
AuthorJonatan argento




Meanwhile...














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Percentage of English speakers by country. (source)

  80-100%
  60-80%
  40-60%
  20-40%
   0.1-20%
  Not available



China doesn't look like a significantly English speaking language - but you have to remember that the people who trade with the outside world are the ones speaking English.

I couldn't find anything on French or German speaking Chinese people. The general consensus seems to be that the business languages are English, Japanese and Korean.
Country  China
 % English speakers 0.8
% As a First Language
Eligible population 1,200,000,000
Total English speakers 10,000,000
As first language
As an additional language[1] 100,000,000
Comments Figures are for English users in mainland China only (i.e. excluding Hong Kong where English is an official language and Macau). The oft-cited figure of 300 million is for "learners."[19]
[20]

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

The Framework

The Framework demands the outlawing of “group libel” that it defines as “defamatory comments made in public and aimed against a group…or members thereof, with a view to inciting to violence, slandering the group, holding it to ridicule or subjecting it to false charges.”

The Framework said it hopes to take “concrete action to combat intolerance, in particular with a view to eliminating racism, colour bias, ethnic discrimination, religious intolerance, totalitarian ideologies, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-feminism and homophobia.”

I am an antifeminist.

For me to say, in public, that feminism erases the crimes of female rapists would become a crime itself - regardless of whether what I say is true.

For me to point out that the gender wage gap is a useful lie, that the global conspiracy of 'Patriarchy' is a myth, or that feminists reinforce gender stereotypes when they are useful ("male tears"), judge others by their appearance so long as they are male ("neckbeards", "fedora-wearers"), and sex-shame men whenever possible with terms like 'creep' and sleaze' whilst demanding females cannot be judged

.. to unveil blatant hypocrisy in condemning the outfits of the dancers in "Blurred Lines" whilst going on topless slut-walks, and always, always, portraying men as wicked, demented, mutated shadows of women.. even to the extreme of making plans to exterminate our kind

to simply mention this as I do now could result in my incarceration.

Feminist Dogma holds that the Patriarchy exists because old white men act for the benefit of all men. Look at the image below. Doesn't this test your faith even a *little*?