How smart are the Europeans ?

Cannot believe these people...

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She never read BBC website and never search the website with the word Panglish. Certainly she did not even know who is Dr Ostler, I suppose. You can read her words, how stupid it is.

As the world is going fast or too fast, therefore, we need a common language, Esperanto but not English which needs 2400 hours of learning. We do not need translators as well in the negotiation of business or politics.

Madam, can you understand ?


“It’s tempting of course. With English you get through everywhere in the whole world,” said Andrea Dahman, head of communications for the Translation Unit of the European Commission. “On the other hand, I’m always saying, if you want to do business you’ve got to speak the language of the client.”

“We’re spending too much time and energy on this language issue,” she said. “The world is moving fast, the world is moving ahead and we need to be looking at other ways of fostering diversity and inclusiveness. You do really need to have a common understanding and I think that’s where English came in as the natural language that everyone spoke."

http://www.pri.org/stories/politics-society/government/european-union-prepares-to-adopt-24th-official-language-as-costs-mount-calls-for-english-rise-13903.html