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L O W L A N D S - L - 28 August 2008 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language politics" 2008.08.27 (02)
[E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Surely all
sport is "entertainment business" these days. Are we going to see
language requirements at the Olympics as well? The fact that the post-game
interview is seen as the exciting bit says something about golf in my opinion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul Finlow-Bates<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language politics" 2008.08.27 (03)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I think the
EU should adopt one of the "little" languages as a standard, to
even up the playing field a bit. My personal choice would be Danish or Frisian,
but that's probably cheating a bit for an English speaker. Maybe Estonian, or
Latvian?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">If we go for
the "size matters" principle, logically German would over-ride
everything else. That'd suit me too, but probably not a lot of the rest
of Europe.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul
Finlow-Bates<br>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Language politics<br>
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Paul,<br>
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I suggest the choice between the landless, impartial languages Romany and
Yiddish. And that'd give everybody something to do for a change.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">By the way,
I know quite a few native speakers whose English is atrocious. Does this mean they'd have a better shot for the jobs than non-native speakers?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Reinhard/Ron<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Brooks, Mark</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language politics" 2008.08.27 (03)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Marlou wrote: "almost every
EU job offer requires English as a native language."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Wow! I never knew
that. That seems very strange to me. It seems like it limits EU
employment to people from the UK or Ireland.
Surely, they don't represent a very large percentage of EU "citizens."
Wouldn't that make for some kind of discrimination? It seems completely
contrary to the EU policy about valuing minority languages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I can certainly understand
requiring EU employees to speak a certain language for the smooth operation of
the organization, but I certainly wouldn't have thought they would require
native speakers English. That seems almost racist for lack of a better
word. Language chauvinism I suppose. How did they ever get that
past the French ;-) ? But seriously, that's a preference based on
national origin. Here in the USA
we have laws against that sort of thing. How un-European!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Mark Brooks</span></p>
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