[Closed] EU Referendum - are you in or out?

All the Hollywood stuff is dubbed in France and Germany.

If any EU language stands to progress from traditional media sources it's German with its numerous free sat channels. You can't watch a film in English without paying but there's something worth watching most nights in the German selection.

The Net is English dominated but kids are learning that the English language streaming sites are the most likely to screw up your computer with spy ware and other nasties so prefer the less infested French web.

(This STW random logout thing is really irritating, mods)

You really think the widespread use of the English language within the EU and worldwide population is in any way tied to continued UK membership?

Americans don't speak the same language as us, as I'm sure you know. Our two languages are mostly mutually intelligible, but not always. Try explaining that the maths behind the 350 million quid number was dodgy and see how far you get.

Our quaint dialect will now just become even more marginalized and irrelevant, that's all. Like a Boris Johnson of languages.

oldnpastit - Member

Americans don't speak the same language as us, as I'm sure you know. Our two languages are mostly mutually intelligible, but not always.

I'm sure I know that the above is complete Horlicks.

Our quaint dialect will now just become even more marginalized and irrelevant

Our quaint dialect is spoken by (in the region of) one and a half billion people worldwide.
I take it you don't get about much?

What is this obsession with putting down anything English, even in the face of glaringly obvious facts?

Never understood this unhealthy practise.

[url= https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/british-government-realises-brexit-is-a-mistake-official-says-1.3048046?m ]https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/british-government-realises-brexit-is-a-mistake-official-says-1.3048046?m[/url]

I think we have a bargaining chip in the Brexit talks. Threaten to stop them using English. That should do it.

how is your Mandarin coming along?

Hello and Happy New Year. Zero point even bothering as Chineese will always speak far better English that I (and vast majority of Westerners) will ever learn Mandarin. I had two Chinesse team members and my colleage who had twice weekly Mandarin for 5 years could not make himself understood for anything but the most basic phrases. Friends who grew up in HK and spoke fluent Cantonease couod not make themselves undsrstood in Mandarin. I must have made 30 business trips to China.

For far on Project Armageddon for Brexit we've had

UK recession deeper than 2009/10
Worldwide recession
Collapse in property prices
End of peace in Europe

and now we add English being replacd by something else ?

So far all we have seen a drop in £ which IMO will be reversed

All of the above is nonsense. The EU can cinducr it's business in double-Dutch from real Double Dutchess as far as I am concerend. Thats their business. The rest of us will speak Engligh to each other and the rest of fhe world

All the Hollywood stuff is dubbed in France and Germany.

VO and VOST ? My French is poor so 90% of the films I watch are in English. We go to the cinema every week with the Orange 2:1 deal

[i]and now we add English being replaced by something else ?[/I]

Who cares what they'll do once we leave?

http://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-official-eu-language-after-brexit-senior-mep/

Yep, as thought, not our problem and a mere pinprick compared to the 5hit5torm that'll hit the UK in 2 years time.

jambalaya

All of the above is nonsense. The EU can cinducr it's business in double-Dutch from real Double Dutchess as far as I am concerend.

Nice reference- sometimes I'm reminded that you're not a bad lad, really 🙂

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slowoldman - Member

I think we have a bargaining chip in the Brexit talks. Threaten to stop them using English. That should do it.

We'll let them use Scottish.

I'm loving everything going over sbob's head. Most amusing. More please.

Still enjoying Jambalaya's "contributions" as well. Build up those men of straw and set them alight. Burn baby burn.

End of peace in Europe

How many times have you told this lie?

Pants on fire!

DrJ - Member
'But it will gain new words - perhaps words like "to leadsom", meaning to know of nothing but tea and cake, or "the Johnson", signifying a volume or region of pointless hot air, or "cameroning", meaning taking something and royally screwing it up.'
That. Plus the armies of unemployed will develop a rich variety of words to describe the different types of garbage that they spend their days sifting through in the hope of finding something worth selling on.

my colleage who had twice weekly Mandarin for 5 years could not make himself understood for anything but the most basic phrases

No one could have twice weekly language lessons for five years and still only be at the basic level

I agree that Brexit wont impact on english worldwide usage in the next 20-40 years

To be fair I cant see english being dropped either .

it is easy to learn compared to others languages .

If you're English.

IMO

Well, more wonderful news, taking back control and all that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/15/britain-set-to-lose-eu-crown-jewels

No one could have twice weekly language lessons for five years and still only be at the basic level

You haven't tried to teach G******. Five years with me, two with Madame, I'm not sure how many language teachers before us and at least five years at school. I'm not sure who suffered most, the teachers or G.

“Britain used to be pragmatic. That doesn’t seem to be the case any more, and we need to protect our interests.”

It looks that way from this side as well. [b]Zeal before deal[/b]. Sad days. The UK is screwing itself. Cheering itself on.

Not to worry though - apparently we are all 'coming together'...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39607056

kelvin - Member

I'm loving everything going over sbob's head. Most amusing. More please.

You haven't disagreed with anything I've said, and haven't pointed out anything you think I may have missed.

1/10 for content. Poor effort.

Not sure I like this 'coming together, lark 🙂

Probably a Tory thing - getting all excited out of privatising more the fk out of UK plc.

You haven't disagreed with anything I've said, and haven't pointed out anything you think I may have missed.

1/10 for content. Poor effort.

sbob, now we're all [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39607056 ]coming together[/url], why don't we all meet up and have a big hug? Jamba, you're invited too! It'll be super!

coming together

Soggy Brexit?

Probably the latter, given the public schoolboys running the country, "Didn't do me any harm. None of that foreign deviancy please."

haven't pointed out anything you think I may have missed

I'm leaving you to re-read the points others made, to see if you can understand them. They're not cryptic.

I think 'coming together' is a Bullingdon Club initiation ritual.

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More amusing then "[i]coming together[/i]" is her emphasising "[i]compassion, community and citizenship[/i]"… top trolling there.

Not sure I like this 'coming together, lark

What she means is that after the noise and jumping up and down all the servants will be together below stairs and all will be right with Downton Abbey again. The masters will be in charge and the lower classes will dutifully pull their forelocks. It's the British way.

I think May was talking about the EU 27 plus half of the UK coming together. She's done that quite successfully.

I'm loving everything going over sbob's head. Most amusing. More please.
You haven't disagreed with anything I've said, and haven't pointed out anything you think I may have missed.
1/10 for content. Poor effort.

In her first Easter message as PM, she said "opportunities" would arise from Brexit and emphasised the UK's "shared ambitions and above all shared values".
She said people should feel "confident" about Christianity's role in society and free to speak about their faith.

These folk of faith dont have a strong grip on reality do they

I dont see any o fthis . Acceptance that is happening but its like being asked to get behind [ and join in with] the charge of the light brigade

These folk of faith dont have a strong grip on reality do they

Is that Leavers or God botherers or both.

These folk of faith dont have a strong grip on reality do they

Depends on your reality thou 🙂

Is May deluded, cynical, or right? Not the last i think.

I think her personal faith is important to her

As to the coming together whether she means it or feels she has to say it is hard to tell but she is out of touch if she thinks it is happening. Heck it wont even be happening at the cabinet table never mind the wider country

Yeah. I edited for good manners, but agreed.

I think May was talking about the EU 27 plus half of the UK coming together.

That's not how I read it.

"This year, after a period of intense debate over the right future for our country, there is a sense that people are coming together and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead."

Of course it's possible to put whatever spin you like on the words.

http://newsthump.com/2017/04/16/theresa-may-uses-thing-that-didnt-happen-to-reflect-on-values-she-doesnt-possess/

oldnpastit - Member

sbob, now we're all coming together, why don't we all meet up and have a big hug? Jamba, you're invited too! It'll be super!

I take your failure to reply on the subject at hand as admission that you were indeed,
chatting shite.

What we need now is for kimbers to make up some ever-so-clever rude sounding words, binners to post a picture and any big hitter to jump in with a cliche.

torsoinalake - Member

Brexkake?

Soggy Brexit?

Nipper99 - Member

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Junkyard - lazarus

OH the irony

It's ****ing bingo! 😀
Though I did get some posters wrong, it doesn't seem to matter which unit you are talking to when communicating with the borg...

Ooohhh, sbob getting very angsty. Take a chill pill dude!

EDIT: I guess that means sbob doesn't want a hug then. 🙁

So much for Theresa's Easter message. Killed by sbob.

kelvin - Member

I'm leaving you to re-read the points others made, to see if you can understand them. They're not cryptic.

You say nothing, I invite you to add content and yet you still say nothing.
One can only conclude that you have nothing to say.

You may as well hold hands with Junkyard and join him in a chorus of "I know you are but what am I". 💡

Probably best you quietly rejoin the pack, or better still pretend this is real life and keep your lack of opinion to yourself. 😉

oldnpastit - Member

Ooohhh, sbob getting very angsty. Take a chill pill dude!

😆

Yes, I always use smileys when I'm [i]very angsty[/i].

In reality I'm as happy as a remainer sitting on two different EU member state passport applications.

You may as well hold hands with Junkyard and join him in a chorus of "I know you are but what am I"

Have you anything grown up to add?- Ps that is rhetorical as you wont get that will you

Are you ninfans alter ego for when he is being ignored?

you share his childish delight in your own stupidity and seem to just want a reaction