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Euroblogs facing Babel: Inclusive and exclusive approaches NEW
Grahnlaw 1 Day, 13 Hours, 45 Minutes ago
If the European Union is the common theme, even our shared destiny, should discussions be confined to separate national or linguistic forums? A short while ago I decided to experiment with a multilingual comment policy on Grahnlaw. After a few day...
E-blogs de Wikio : les meilleurs blogs européens maintenant traduits en 5 langues NEW
Europasionaria (FR) 5 Days, 52 Minutes ago
Grâce au moteur de recherche de blogs Wikio, nous n’avons désormais plus besoin de parler 5 langues pour découvrir les meilleurs blogs européens. Chaque jour sur e-blogs, des billets publiés au Royaume Uni, en France, en Allemagne, en Ital...
E-blogs by Wikio: the best European blogposts now available in 5 languages NEW
Europasionaria 5 Days, 53 Minutes ago
Thanks to the European blog search engine Wikio, there is now no need anymore to speak 5 languages to discover the best European blogs. Each day on e-blogs, blogposts from the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain are selected and translated into 5 la...
Opening Up My Euroblogging: Language and Linking NEW
The European Citizen 5 Days, 23 Hours, 7 Minutes ago
I've been inspired by Mathew Lowry and Ralf Grahn to open up my Euroblogging and to try and reach out a bit more across the blogosphere(s).The debate on the French Euroblogosphere (see Europasionaria) prompted Grahnlaw to introduce a policy on langua...
Euroblogs: Languages and interaction NEW
Grahnlaw 1 Week, 14 Hours ago
We see a continuing lively debate on Euroblogs and Twitter (for instance #euroblog #EU #bkaeb #bbs10) regarding blogging about the European Union. Bloggingportal.eu has grown to aggregate the posts of 630 EU oriented blogs, and it already forms a com...
EU Draft Council Regulation On The Translation Arrangements For The EU Patent Published NEW
IP::JUR 4 Weeks, 7 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
On December 04, 2009, a (partial) political breakthrough had been achieved by the EU Council: A number of conclusions on an enhanced patent system in Europe were fixed on that day. EU Council Document 16113/09 ADD 1 served as a basis for the politic...
Belgique: deux langues de plus en plus étrangères NEW
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 12 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
« Il était cinq heures du matin, samedi 5 juin », raconte Patrick, marchand de journaux, avenue Louise, à Bruxelles. « La voiture devant nous s’est violemment encastrée dans le rond-point, chaussée de Stall, à l’entrée de Bruxelles. Le c...
Sabine Laruelle, ministre fédérale belge : « Une communauté ne pourra pas imposer ses vues à l'autre » NEW
Euros du Village 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 14 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
A quelques jours des élections du 13 juin, la ministre belge des PME et de l'agriculture s'exprime sur l'avenir politique de son pays - L'invité / Belgique, Politique nationale, GRANDE UNE...
BHV: Not just a French department store NEW
Public Affairs 2.0 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 16 Hours, 30 Minutes ago
One of Paris’ largest department stores is the Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville or ‘BHV’. Women’s fashion, decoration, furniture and DIY material…you can all find it at BHV. The slogan of the Paris BHV is ‘Tout pour trouver son bonheur.’ Tr...
Déni de nationalisme en Flandre NEW
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 17 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
Voici la version française de mon article paru ce matin dans le quotidien néerlandophone belge, De Morgen (sa ligne éditoriale est proche de celle de Libération). (photo: lion nationaliste flamand, la langue rouge ayant disparue). La Flandre fait...
L’Europanto : tous les mots sont permis NEW
Le Blogueur (arte) 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 18 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
A la base c’est un gag. Mais l’europanto, langue de toutes les langues inventée par Diego Marani, est aussi l’occasion de jouer si bien avec les mots qu’on en saisit l’essentiel: l’art de se comprendre. Traducteu...
Europe cherche interprètes désespérément NEW
Le Blogueur (arte) 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 17 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
Face au vieillissement des professionnels et à la désaffection des étudiants pour certaines langues, le métier d’interprète doit se renouveler sérieusement pour continuer à contribuer au bon fonctionnement des institutions européennes. S’...
Deutschunterricht mal richtig NEW
RandomInsights (AT) 1 Month, 4 Weeks, 13 Hours, 24 Minutes ago
Jetzt hab ich schon lange nix Kontrovers … Continue reading →...
Les sous-doués font des langues NEW
Le Blogueur (arte) 1 Month, 4 Weeks, 16 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
Les jeunes Français, Italiens ou Espagnols sont connus pour leur faible niveau en langues. Nous avons suivi quelques spécimens de chaque pays partis en colonie de vacances pour améliorer leur niveau d’anglais. On les a beaucoup vus se gouach...
Qui sont les polyglottes européens ? NEW
Le Blogueur (arte) 1 Month, 4 Weeks, 16 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
Les polyglottes sont rares, mais il y en a. Si certains pays se contentent de leur langue maternelle (comme en Irlande, pour ne citer personne), la tendance générale est plutôt à l’apprentissage de nouveaux rivages linguistiques (manière d...
the rise of English (book review_ NEW
Edward Lucas (The Economist) 2 Months, 2 Days, 6 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
The rise and rise of English Top dogMay 27th 2010 From The Economist print editionGlobish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language. By Robert McCrum. W.W. Norton; 310 pages; $26.95. Viking; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukENGLIS...
On the Improvement of EU Language Rights at ECJBlog.com NEW
EU Pundit 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 2 Hours, 15 Minutes ago
On the Improvement of EU Language Rights at ECJBlog.com...
Medlemskap i EU vil gje målrørsla eit unikt høve til å påverke språkpolitikken i EU NEW
Finn Myrstad 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 14 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
(for my English readers: one off article in Norwegian (nynorsk) on the issue of language and the EU, previously published in the periodical Dag og Tid) Målsaka har alltid vore inspirert av internasjonale og spesielt europeiske impulsar. Fleire av de...
My Europe Week: EU lingua franca? NEW
Grahnlaw 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 14 Hours, 15 Minutes ago
If we applied the first past the post system, German would be the sole language of the European Union, being the mother tongue of the greatest proportion of the EU population (18 per cent), although far from an absolute majority (source: Wikipedia).
My Europe Week: Dumbing down films by dubbing NEW
Grahnlaw 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 17 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
In the previous Grahnlaw blog post My Europe Week: Why language rights and multilingualism?, we found good reasons for both linguistic rights for EU citizens and for learning foreign languages (multilingualism). The EU’s language policy has commen...
My Europe Week: Why language rights and multilingualism? NEW
Grahnlaw 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 14 Hours, 38 Minutes ago
If you are an English nationalist, you might want the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union, but the EU to cut administrative waste by adopting English as its sole language. If your first wish came true, after UK secession English would...
English invasion of French: Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense! NEW
EuRoman 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 7 Hours, 58 Minutes ago
The invasion of the langue de Molière by English words is intolerable… Or should we laissez-faire? Actually, France had a lien on phrases lent to the alleged lingua franca. Many words in English are née françois: they have French roots, plenty...
Stockholm Programme Action Plan now in 21 EU languages NEW
Grahnlaw 3 Months, 8 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Earlier we have noted the publication in three languages ─ English, French and German ─ of the proposed Action Plan implementing the European Union’s Stockholm Programme in justice and home affairs (JHA): EN - English Delivering an area of free...
EU JHA: Stockholm Programme Action Plan in English, French and German NEW
Grahnlaw 3 Months, 5 Days, 9 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
Earlier we linked to the English version of the Communication, which had been published. We have now been able to locate French and German language versions of the European Union’s Stockholm Programme Action Plan for justice and home affairs (JHA)...
Concorso EPSO: l'ira di Ronchi contro l'UE... NEW
Gli Euros 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 1 Hour, 17 Minutes ago
Il nostro ministro se la prende con il concorso per nuovi funzionari UE agitando lo spauracchio della discriminazione linguistica. Favoriti anglofoni, germanofoni e francofoni (le tre lingue da scegliere per sostenre i test), penalizzati tutti gli al...
Min dit: First Kurdish movie with Turkish subtitles NEW
Erkan's field diary 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 16 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
I haven’t seen it yet. Min Dit: The Children of Diyarbakir On an empty road near Diyarbakir, life of ten year old Gülistan and her brother Firat takes an abrupt change. Their Father, a political journalist, and their mother are being killed...
La Commission européenne, une communauté multilingue NEW
Union européenne 2.0 4 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 19 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
Le multilinguisme a été un des principes fondamentaux de la Communauté, garant de l'égalité de chaque langue avec les autres et du respect de la diversité linguistique et culturelle. Il s'est « traduit » en action concrète dès les premiers...
Do you speak Européen ? NEW
EU Weekly 4 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 11 Hours, 46 Minutes ago
J’avais déjà abordé ce sujet (en anglais) et un hasard de circonstance m’y ramène : Jean Quatremer se désole de l’emprise de la langue de Shakespeare sur les institutions Européennes… Et justement, Le Guardian Weekly pub...
English is great. J'adore le français. Deutsch ist toll. So what? NEW
Julien Frisch 4 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 3 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
This is an answer to Jean Quatremer who titled "L'Union dont "l'espéranto" est l'anglais" ('The Union whose Esperanto is English'). First: Take a look at Germany's song for the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo. We don't have a problem sending someon...
German as EU working language: Beschwerungen, Verteidigung oder wirkliche Förderung? NEW
EuRoman 5 Months, 6 Days, 20 Hours, 8 Minutes ago
A post by Günter K.V. Vetter about German as working language of the new EU External Action Service triggers my writing down some opinion that I kept relatively private so far. Here is the original post, in German of course… and I also react...
German speaking at sale NEW
Europa-Transparent 5 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 2 Hours, 22 Minutes ago
Difficult times – also for Germany and the german language. It seems that Baroness Ashton is not interested in German as one of the working langugages in the  coming EU-diplomatic service. That might be one reason, that the Goethe Institut Bru...
Language moves NEW
Behind the Scenes - Honor Mahony (EUobserver) 5 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 1 Hour, 21 Minutes ago
It was the ‘Kiss&Ride’ that did it. The vacuous English-language sign that broke the camel’s back. Clearly, it means a short term carpark. But who could have known that the locals (in Bavaria) would think it has seedier connotations? A flu...
Paris applies 'friendly pressure' on French language use NEW
CTA Brussels Weblog 5 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 4 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
With the Lisbon Treaty in place and recruitment ready to start for the European diplomatic service, France is on a mission to strengthen its "francophone exigency," said former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, special envoy on francophony to Pr...
Why I am Euroblogging in English NEW
Julien Frisch 6 Months, 10 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
I started to write a blog post in German, and then I erased everything because it didn't sound right. The reason I even though about blogging in German was this request by Europaeum yesterday:Außerdem wünsche ich mir von den vielen Euroblogs noch...
Öttinger vs. English as a working language NEW
Kosmopolito 6 Months, 2 Days, 12 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
Günther Öttinger famously declared a few years ago that English will become the global working language (“Englisch wird die Arbeitssprache”).So, his job as the EU commissioner for energy is certainly a great opportunity for him to use h...
A Date for the Esperanto Challenge NEW
Joe Litobarski 6 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 15 Hours, 41 Minutes ago
I thought I should finally set a date for my Esperanto challenge: 10th February 2010.
More thoughts on the EU's linguistic issue and the EU at home and in the world NEW
Nick Panayotopoulos Thinking 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 11 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
More thoughts on the EU's linguistic issue and the EU at home and in the world, prompted by exchanges of views today with 2 fellow European tweeters.IMO, people can speak whatever language they want at home but unless a single one (English of course,...
English in the EU NEW
Nick Panayotopoulos Thinking 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 12 Hours, 8 Minutes ago
English is the most commonly used language in the EU25 (*)51% speak it either as mother tongue (13%) or as a foreign language (38%) according to the "Special Eurobarometer 243" of the European Commission with the title "Europeans and their Languages"...
Soutenance NEW
EGEA 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 22 Hours, 2 Minutes ago
Ayant eu à traduire récemment un texte anglais, je fus confronté au mot "sustainability". Durabilité que l'un m'a proposé ne me convient pas, tout d'abord car il n'est pas français, et vraiment trop laid. Pérennité ne correspond pas ex...
Is Simple English Simply Annoying? NEW
Joe Litobarski 7 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 3 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
Should I write using simple English to accomodate my non-English speaking readers?Score: 0 (0 votes cast)...
A la Commission, mieux vaut "speaker" english... NEW
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 7 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
Aujourd’hui, l’exécutif européen a annoncé que les citoyens européens pouvaient voter en ligne pour choisir le nouveau logo qui ornera les produits biologiques à travers l’Union européenne. Un lien est donné, sur le communiqué de presse...
Chasing Brussels #9: Language and the Euroblogosphere NEW
The European Citizen 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 17 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
Chasing Brussels #9 is out now, and this week we're taking a closer look at the direction of the Euroblogosphere (which is every Euroblogger's favourite topic). The podcast follows a Euroblogger's virtual meet-up on Skype and Google Wave, where we di...
Chasing Brussels Podcast Episode 009: Language & The Euroblogosphere NEW
Julien Frisch 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 3 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Right after our recent Eurobloggers' meet-up - see the report by Joe Litobarski - we recorded the next episode of the Chasing Brussels Podcast.This week, Joe Litobarski is joined by Conor Slowey, Julien Frisch, Jon Worth,&nbs...
Language and Euroblogs NEW
Joe Litobarski 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 4 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
This week, I'm joined by a panel of eurobloggers to talk about the problem of the language barrier in European blogging.
Episode 009 – Language & The Euroblogosphere NEW
Chasing Brussels 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 4 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
This week, Joe Litobarski is joined by Conor Slowey, Julien Frisch, Jon Worth, Matthew Lowry and Frank Schnittger to talk about the problem of the language barrier in European blogging.
Buying Middle-Eastern Lemons in Italian NEW
Joe Litobarski 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 6 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
I bought some lemons today from a Middle Eastern food store. The shopkeeper and I spoke entirely in Italian.Score: 0 (0 votes cast)...
Lucky English speaking friends NEW
Writing for (y)EU 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 10 Hours, 14 Minutes ago
Dear English speaking friends: you are lucky! One of the best French Comics’ blogger is now providing his blog in English. His name’s Boulet and he’s arguably one of the most talented BD Blogger we have (BD stands for bande dessiné...
moien: Speciālā reportāža tulkotājiem NEW
moiens.blogspot.com, 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 15 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Euroblog Meet-up: Practical Details NEW
Joe Litobarski 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 22 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
Here are some practical details about the euroblog online meet-up at 20:00 GMT on December 3rd, 2009.Score: 0 (0 votes cast)...
I Will Take the Esperanto Challenge NEW
Joe Litobarski 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 15 Minutes ago
In 2010 - I will spend one month of my life learning Esperanto and blogging about my challenge.Score: 0 (0 votes cast)...
Five reasons why Italian should be Europe's lingua franca NEW
Babelblogs reviews 9 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 15 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
There are various solutions to fortifying Europe and creating mutual understanding. As far as I am concerned, Dante’s language is perfect for the common good of all Europeans...
Improving our language skills NEW
Europa-Transparent 10 Months, 4 Days, 6 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
Thank you very much, Helen Titchen Beeth, for your helpful comment and frank remarks. I got the message and promise to improve, if I may say so. As a service to the non-German speaking world in the ‘Brussels Bubble’, I also would like to...
Wir Europäer und die Sprachen: zwischen Vielfalt und Rationalität NEW
Die Euros 11 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 4 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
23 Amtssprachen, das bedeutet 506 mögliche Sprachkombinationen für Übersetzungen im EU-Parlament. Die EU muss hier die richtige Balance finden: einerseits sinnvoll rationalisieren, andererseits aber auch jedem Abgeordneten die Möglichkeit geben,...
Libertas France can't speak French according to Libertas the pan european political party blog NEW
Libertas Nein Danke 1 Year, 4 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 8 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Alan Kennedy Libertas intern and Ganley acolyteThe amazing stupidity of Libertas HQ planners in Brussels is manifest in the fact that the Libertas France Twitter feed is being written in English according to Libertas the pan European political Party...
Esperanto Party running for European elections NEW
eurozone 1 Year, 4 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 11 Hours, 9 Minutes ago
Europe – Democracy – Esperanto or E° D° E° (EDE) (in Esperanto: Eŭropo – Demokratio – Esperanto) is an electoral list, which participates in the European elections. The party's main platform is the introduction of Esperanto as the officia...
Languages again NEW
Martin Westlake 1 Year, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 10 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
A graphic illustration of providing translation into and out of twenty two languages was provided by my colleagues in the Translation Directorate the other day. It speaks for itself, really.
“If they do speak our language, ’tis our will”*: ECJ backs Spanish requirement to invest in Spanish language films NEW
content and carrier 1 Year, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 17 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
In its judgement of 5 March 2009 in the case C-222/07 UTECA, the European Court of Justice closely followed what advocate general Kokott had suggested in her opinion (more on that here). The Spanish law requiring television operators to earmark 5% of...
The European Court of Human rights tests online application in Swedish and Dutch NEW
Julien Frisch 1 Year, 4 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Days, 15 Minutes ago
Interesting experiment in Strasbourg: The European Court of Human Rights is testing an online application procedure in Swedish and Dutch.It will be interesting to see whether this experiment will work out and whether it will be extended to other coun...
What can your country do for the EU? [frankschnittger] NEW
Think About It - EU Blog Competition 1 Year, 5 Months, 39 Minutes ago
John F Kennedy famously said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. I want to pose a similar but slightly larger question to all the bloggers here: “Ask not what the EU can do for your cou...
Multilingualism: a long term investment for EU NEW
JMECE Lab EuroBlogFest 1 Year, 5 Months, 2 Days, 21 Hours, 21 Minutes ago
The European Union has 23 official languages, and as the EU enlarges, the number will increase further”[1]. By: Nathalie Henri European institutions refer to the key term of multilingualism as not only the expression of the plurality of langua...
Parlez-vous Francais? NEW
Talking about the EU 1 Year, 5 Months, 1 Week, 1 Hour, 44 Minutes ago
The Commission held a briefing in Brussels yesterday entitled “Is English becoming a rare language?” It highlighted the lack of English-language interpreters and translators in the EU institutions. It might not seem logical, but as Englis...
Sarkozy does not speak English NEW
Julien Frisch 1 Year, 5 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 5 Hours, 53 Minutes ago
I just learned that the ex-President of the Council of the European Union and still-President of one of the major EU countries - Nicolas Sarkozy - does not speak (enough) English to talk to the newly elected US president Obama without translator - wh...
Clarity of language NEW
England Expects 1 Year, 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 1 Hour, 56 Minutes ago
This rather delightful invitation just came through,"The European Institute of Public Administration is organising a workshop entitled “From Project Proposal to Final Report: Formal Writing in English for Public Officials”, Which everybody must a...
Cheeseburgery hamburgers and the problem of computerised translations NEW
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 1 Year, 6 Months, 1 Day, 18 Hours, 38 Minutes ago
This morning I found myself on a public platform in a Brussels hotel for my first ever European bloggers’ conference. As a representative of an “establishment” news organisation, I was half-expecting to be roasted alive. But i...
Languages and EU law: Case T-185/05 NEW
EU Law Blog 1 Year, 8 Months, 4 Days, 23 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
There's nothing quite as sensitive as the law of languages in EU law. And the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-185/05 Italy v. Commission shows just how sensitive and litigious the member States are about languages....
English as a tool for Sarkozy-baiting NEW
Certain ideas of Europe (Economist) 1 Year, 8 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 13 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
Frances president is teased...
Lingoo : une plateforme d'échanges linguistiques NEW
Le Taurillon 1 Year, 9 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 19 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
Pour vivre l'Europe le mieux possible, l'idéal est de voyager, notamment lorsqu'on est jeune. Lingoo est une plateforme de rencontres destinée aux familles qui veulent organiser directement entre elles des séjours linguistiques pour leurs enfants.
A European Story: Subtitling porn NEW
Julien Frisch 1 Year, 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 21 Hours, 5 Minutes ago
Guy La Roche from A Fistful of Euros has blogged an article about his life as a subtitler.The text is a pleasant mix of a personal story, information about cultural differences in Europe, and the difficulty to subtitle porn (and Shakespeare!).Please...
Sunday morning lifeblogging: adventures in European subtitling NEW
A Fistful of Euros 1 Year, 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 22 Hours, 26 Minutes ago
Shot taken from Samurai Champloo About a year ago there was this email exchange between me and some of my AFOE colleagues in which I talked a bit about my daily job as a subtitler. Actually, I was venting. During this exchange I was invited to write...
Vocab review (v.2) NEW
The 8th Circle 1 Year, 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 15 Hours, 34 Minutes ago
It’s that time again! New words are here for your hungered minds. I decided to settle on the number eight as the most words that can be presented in a given edition of Vocab Review (or five). Disclaimer: absolutely no particular reason why...
Welsh, Gaelic Languages and the United Kingdom Administrative Arrangement with the Council NEW
EU Law Blog 1 Year, 11 Months, 4 Weeks, 6 Hours, 23 Minutes ago
Remember that Council conclusion of June 13th 2005 on the official use of additional languages within the Council and possibly other Institutions and bodies of the European Union ? We mentioned it in this post back in September 2005. We...
Vocab review (v.1) NEW
The 8th Circle 2 Years, 1 Week, 4 Days, 2 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
Introducing a new blog category…[drum roll]…the vocabulary review. There is nothing like sharing the wealth of the English language: abstemious (adj.) - 1. eating and drinking in moderation; 2. characterized by abstinence or moderation...
Langues régionales NEW
Bernard Poignant 2 Years, 2 Weeks, 19 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
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Unleashing the Italian language police NEW
Certain ideas of Europe (Economist) 2 Years, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 7 Hours, 9 Minutes ago
Berlusconi wants more air time at the EU...
The German Plot Against French! NEW
A Fistful of Euros 2 Years, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 2 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
An interesting post at Language Log, about the position of minority languages/dialects in France. Traditionally, France before the Revolution was more of a geographical expression than a state in the modern sense, to adapt the famous phrase about pre...
Das verteufelte ß NEW
RandomInsights (AT) 2 Years, 1 Month, 16 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
Endlich ist die Diskriminierung des scharfen ß vorbei - es gibt nun nicht nur im aktuellen Unicode-Standard die großgeschriebene Variante davon, sondern auch hochoffiziell von ISO international normiert . Und das nehme ich gleich als Anlass, um es...
The margins, the formal settings and the documents: the EU needs a better language hierarchy NEW
Jon Worth's Euroblog 2 Years, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 1 Hour, 3 Minutes ago
Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans has once more raised the issue of Welsh and its status as a language at EU level, and this has generated some follow-up debate. So rather than look at the issue of Welsh in itself, how about some principles of how EU multi-...
Welsh to become official EU language? NEW
European Information Association 2 Years, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 18 Hours, 56 Minutes ago
Welsh might be used at EU level, according to this BBC news item.