English Language losing importance in Europe.
 

Juncker: English language is 'losing importance at EU'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39816696

speak up cannot understand a word you are saying mr junkman is you name harold by chance

But not in the rest of the World.

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.

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.

It is a deliberate provocation by Junker. Best just to ignore the insignificant unelected little Sierra hotel India tango

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

Wasn`t a Junker a German aircraft?

Achtung Spitfire!

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

What a load of utter rubbish….. official language of many European industries is English. Siemens, VAG, Alcatel, EoN etc.
Junker speaks ‘horseshit’

Binnacle the starter of this thread has alas crossed the bar.
RIP Bill