CopperLine wrote:Kifeas,
I really can't be bothered going through this. Here was a poster who was saying something about language rights and EU languages. I responded saying I thought that his was unnecessarily complicated and that it didn't have to rely on official language and state membership. You disagree. Fair enough. But don't give me that crap about it being irrelevant to the thread or that we were only talking about official EU languages. Even the briefest of glimpses across the posts on this thread show that not to be the case.
"If you want to prove your sincerity and integrity as a poster ..." What on earth are you talking about ? Why on earth do you think I might give a hoot 'as a poster' ?
Good night.
CopperLine, The EU has 23 OFFICIAL languages, i.e. all the laws, publications, decisions, declarations, etc, are all translated into all of them, plus they are all accepted to be used in the EU parliament by MPs; it then has (only)3 WORKING languages (English, French and German,) i.e. languages used by its institutional apparatus (employees so to say,) mainly for practical purposes; and then it finally has perhaps hundreds of other languages that are spoken by various groups and communities within the EU, and which are all protected as part of Europe’s cultural heritage!
Brian Siemen's petition was about making Turkish as an OFFICIAL EU language, and this is what the discussion was sparked by and revolves around, i.e. whether the EU should adopt Turkish as an OFFICIAL language; and not whether the various communities in the EU should have the right to speak and use any language they know and wish, among themselves and to each other on an individual level! I do not know why you got the two issues mixed up in this way!
Good night to you too!