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[scriver]

Well, English is kind of the fallback option I suppose because it's already used so much internationally.

If you wanted to choose a language other than English, how would you choose? (warning, huge image) There are three major groups of languages in Europe, Germanic (English, German, Swedish, etc), Romance languages (everything descended from Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, etc), and Slavic (Russian, Polish, Serbian, etc). French and German have been Lingua Francas in the past, but with so many diverse languages, how do you pick one that is to be used in common throughout an EU army.

What Sergarr said, English is already used widely and is seen as a pretty neutral one to use. Although the French would insist on French being used instead, heh.

The only solution is to go Full Basque.

[Alastar]

We could just fall back to Latin, used to work well enough.

[helmacon]

We could just fall back to Latin, used to work well enough.

It is equally neutral to all the states in that no one knows it. (Except, ya know, the Vatican)

Pope for combined European warlord!! What could go wrong?!

[scriver]

We could just fall back to Latin, used to work well enough.

Why would we want to speak the language of old conquerors and oppressors?

Actually if anything Occitan should be the main language just to fuck with the French.

[Sheb]

In non frog news: Lel have fun with that.

What does this have to do with the EU?

[TempAcc]

I just wanted an excuse to call the french frogs.

[ChairmanPoo]

We could just fall back to Latin, used to work well enough.

It is equally neutral to all the states in that no one knows it. (Except, ya know, the Vatican)

Pope for combined European warlord!! What could go wrong?!

https://youtu.be/eR4J5vzAyTs

[Strife26]

English has been the Lingua franca of the world for more than a few years now. There's a reason why it's the air control standard.

[Arx]

Make Esperanto great again.

[Baffler]

Make Esperanto great again.

Ankoraŭ ne, frato.

[Sergarr]

Just heard that Mélenchon's spokesman called for "not a single vote to Le Pen".

[ChairmanPoo]

It was a given. Seriously, did anyone actually believe that a hard-leftist like Melenchon would support a fascist party?

[scriver]

It's easy to forget that le Penne has made built her road to this election by mirroring the socialist wing. Maccheroncelli supporters going to her over of neo-liberal Macaroni is not unthinkable, but I wouldn't think there would be many of them.

But I guess that refers more to the voters than Melechon himself though. Regardless, him supporting a hard-right neoliberal is just as hard to believe.

[ChairmanPoo]

He doesnt really lose anything. He gets a highish proportion of seats, and makes a stand against fascism in an election round in which he is not taking place. He can vote against any and every law Macron proposes, afterwards.

[scriver]

Speaking of voting against things, Sweden's government (social democratic party and environment party) is refusing to make public whether they voted for or against the Saudi joining the UN Women's Right Council. Which likely means that they voted for it. And then they have the gall to pay themselves on the back for what they call a feminist foreign policy.