@Katze Miaulitzer I think one reason that English has been used so commonly as a general language is because of the amount of nations (mainly former colonies) that have English as a first, second or third language

And as nations like India grow, that becomes more important

Tbh, if Hindi wants to become a well known language it needs to get rid of a lot of the dialects

Plus Canada isn’t in Europe

The US isn’t in Europe

Australia is its own continent

India is In Asia

South Africa is obviously in Africa

The only European colony of Britain is the Republic of Ireland

Or country that was formerly British

@TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh) I was talking about the EU not the world

Hmm

I doubt they'd be able to get rid of their dialects

@Katze Miaulitzer malta, cyprus, gibraltar have all been or still are colonised by the uk

Gibraltar isn’t even a country

And Cyprus isn’t an English speaking country

Only that cluster of islands aka Malta is a country that was under British rule that speaks English

Doesn't matter, i don't think there needs to be countries to pressure english influence in the EU

Of course it helps majorly, but external influence plays the key part

I am saying German should be used.

Brexit smexit, imo if shit changes it changes, we should be focusing on bigger deals than a haphazard choice our parliament had litteraly no intention of siding with what the public said.


Just realised this might not be onntopic

Malta does not speak English

They speak maltese

They have two official languages

English and Maltese

@purpletomato

> except that Switzerland isn't in the EU
@Cuccolover Switzerland is the convenient bank to store all the illicit and Nazi gold.

irish is not bastard english what

it comes from sengoidelc

which is pretty ancient

now im sad how could you say that

A part of Ireland is in the UK still

Sad boi hours

But the EU is going to have to talk and trade with nations outside Europe. I'd understand a couple decades ago where the only important places outside Europe were the US and Japan but that's no longer the case

Well, the EU can’t take over the whole world

can't it?

thought it could

thought that's why they wanted a EU military

Well germany wouldn’t be a key player in that military

And the British aren’t in the EU

i was joking