17-03-2021, 06:52 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Mags
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I took Latin at school too, I quite enjoyed it but unfortunately it was useless to me in the wide world. 
17-03-2021, 08:19 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Muddy
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I can say the Our Father , Hail Mary and sing the Tantum Ergo in Latin courtesy of my Catholic schooling .The Latin Mass was quite beautiful .
17-03-2021, 09:57 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Mags
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I took Latin at school too, I quite enjoyed it but unfortunately it was useless to me in the wide world.
Good for almost understanding doctor's prescriptions.
17-03-2021, 09:58 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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Same here. I chose German and still failed it at O Level. 
I can still speak a little German but nowhere near as much as I can Italian or French.
You only need the important words Percy.
17-03-2021, 09:59 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Well, possibly. There are quite a few common Latin words in English.Status quo, subpoena, ad nauseam, etc so maybe not so useless.
17-03-2021, 10:07 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Cinderella
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English is an International language, the French cannot deny that. 
Ineptias
Well, they would look odd with French Letters up there!
17-03-2021, 10:11 PM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Tedc
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The French Navy Sailors have the name of their ship, on their hats, in English!Well, they would look odd with French Letters up there!
18-03-2021, 12:25 AM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Surely Keezoy for the average student it would be just as helpful to study a living Latin language such as Spanish your son is a linguist most people are not .learning one Latin language makes another much easier . Spanish is the third spoken language of the world and is understood in Portugal and Italy to an extent .
I ran past Peter what you said there. he doesn't disagree with anything you've said. He speaks conversational Spanish and French. But he did say that you don't have to be a linguist to learn Latin and it gives you a great head start with al latin based languages. Even Romanian which is also Latin based. The only problem I have with what has been said here is the claim that Latin is "Dead language"...THat is so wrong.
18-03-2021, 05:27 AM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
French used to be the international telecommunications language. I was paid 104 pounds a year by the GPO to speak it when I worked on the Eurovision link from Tolsford Hill to Lille and the under sea cable links between Dover and Bologne/Calais. It might well still be.Personally I doubt English is the most spoken language in the world there are 1.4 billion Chinese in China and gawd knows how many Chinese living in just about every country in the world who also speak Mandarin. More so now that Cantonese is not taught.
If you travel in any Asian country these days you are far more likely to find a Chinese speaking local than an English speaking local purely because of the number of Chinese tourists.
BTW I learned Latin at school, great stories useless language.
18-03-2021, 09:27 AM
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Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Naturally, Chinese will always be the language spoken by the most people just because of the sheer number of Chinese. Yet what is usually meant by the question under discussion is which language is most widely spoken as a second or foreign language the world over and that is and will remain English. Everything else is just wishful thinking advocated by some politicians and as part of language politics of some countries or political/economic unions. There's no chance for Latin or French to replace English as a lingua franca.|
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