Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)

En réponse à Mark P. Line :


>Cyprus means Cyprus, which is bilingual. (There are probably some Cypriots
>who would disagree, but that's the EU position as nearly as I can tell.)
>The Translation Directorate is expanding to include Turkish as a
>co-official language or something like that -- Turkish Cypriots are
>certainly not being left out in today's expansion.
As said earlier, you're completely wrong here. Cyprus is separated into a 
Greek Cyprus and a Turkish Cyprus. They had both a referendum of 
reunification last week (don't tell me you didn't hear about it. It was big 
enough news, being the big work of none other than Kofi Annan). It was 
known that if Cyprus was reunited, it would become part of the EU as a 
whole. If not, only the Greek part would become member of the EU. As it 
happens, the Turkish part voted massally in favour of the reunification, 
but the Greek part voted massally against it. Since majority was necessary 
in both parts, the reunification didn't take place, and only the Greek part 
of Cyprus joined the EU. There is *no* single Cyprus, except in the 
Eurovision Song Contest.


>So do I, now, but I lived in the EU most of my adult life.
And you didn't hear about the failed reunification of Cyprus?

Christophe Grandsire.

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