Re: OT: passport languages
From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
Date: | Friday, August 29, 2003, 12:28 |
--- Christophe skrzypszy:
> Bushese? ;)))))
LOL.
> >Our EU-passports are in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish,
> >Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek. I don't have my passport
> >with me now, so I can't check of Irish is on it, too.
>
> It's in, I just happened to check that a few days ago :))) . Dutch is in
> too by the way. Basically, it's all the official languages of the EU.
Hehe. Nice for me to forget Dutch! :)))
Irish is a bit of a doubtful case. It ís one of the official languages of the
EU, but not entirely. When I worked for the Publications Office of the EU, the
journal we published every day was in eleven languages; an Irish version
existed, but this was nothing but a synopsis.
Jan
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