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6 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
French politicians propose a parliamentary resolution for French to become "the only" working language of the European Union.
They describe Brexit as a "unique opportunity" to reverse the encroachment of English and its attendant "Anglo-Saxon culture"
assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/15/textes/…
"It may be objected that German is today in the European Union the language with the largest number of mother tongue speakers. To put forward such an argument would be to forget, however, that German does not have the same international status as French," it reads.
Great value.
"English is now the mother tongue of only 1% of the Union's population" Ireland and Malta crushed with a sweep of the Gallic hand
Fine by me. The heir of Latin
If this debate is seriously to be had though we'll just end up adding Spanish
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