Languages of the European Union
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Then they're not true Americans.
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
Yet you hate socialism, which is odd seeing how fundamental the wealfare state is to way of life here.
Quackers
The Frog
Friendship, kin and kilth and all that is not always politics 
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Fifty
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An Eastern European language like Polish would help Poland and other Eastern European nations feel a greater sense of brotherhood with the rest of the EU.
Huayna Capac357
Deity
Lol. And you guys wonder why they didn't put you in Entropa.
Friendship, kin and kilth and all that is not always politics
Precisely!
Shadylookin
master debater
Use English. Let the individual nations translate the official documents in their local inferior languages if they want. Problem solved.
TheLastOne36
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That is a bit unfair to the Germans and French though isn't it? Germans in particular, where it is the official language of 4 European countries and large populations of 9 other countries speak it/ learn it in school.
mangxema
I
Esperanto por la venko!
Nylan
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Again, Esperanto is lamesauce.
Esparanto sucks for a number of reasons.
If you want to use an Auxlang that is much more naturalistric, and hell simply more fitting as a European language than a language whose phonology was based on the speaker's polish dialect, use Modern Indo-European! Based on the ancestor of all european languages (except the finns, estonians, hungarians, and basques, but who really cares about them?) it's extremely adaptable in its vocabulary (unlike Elta's hateful lies)
You can download the grammar here.
No complaining about linguistic complexity, by the way - no (natural non-pidgin) language's grammar is no more complex than another. English's lack of a complex verbal conjugation and nominal declension is matched by its complex periphrastic constructions and rigid word order. (There's the matter of spelling too but that's not language!)
If you want to use an Auxlang that is much more naturalistric, and hell simply more fitting as a European language than a language whose phonology was based on the speaker's polish dialect, use Modern Indo-European! Based on the ancestor of all european languages (except the finns, estonians, hungarians, and basques, but who really cares about them?) it's extremely adaptable in its vocabulary (unlike Elta's hateful lies)
You can download the grammar here.
No complaining about linguistic complexity, by the way - no (natural non-pidgin) language's grammar is no more complex than another. English's lack of a complex verbal conjugation and nominal declension is matched by its complex periphrastic constructions and rigid word order. (There's the matter of spelling too but that's not language!)
Nylan
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I'd rather a synthetic language based upon predicate logic.
Not a natural language and probably will drastically change once it has native speakers.
Pangur Bán
Deconstructed
The idea of using Esperanto or Latin is ridiculous. Over half the EU has some knowledge of English. We don't need to waste resources teaching another language so that the French aren't offended. We already have a lingua franca!
Nylan
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You may be right, but flexibility is built into the language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojban
Actually, what's even worse is that the language was invented to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. That's enough to not use it.
Verbose
Deity
The only thing you'll accomplish like that is that we all submit in our individual languages, and translate according to our needs. Which is pretty much what's going on right now, except that horsehockey attitude of yours of course, which must be a boon in itself I take it?
