R: Re: HUMOUR: "EuroEnglish": is this for real???

Raymond Brown wrote:

> The piece IMHO not only only reflects the xenophobic drivel I've heard
> ad_nauseam from the so-called 'euroskeptics' for the last 20 to 30 years,
> it also hints more specifically at Germanophobia.
>
> There is, you will notice, no mention of French at all in the piece, even
> though in actual fact English & French (both unreformed) are the two
> everday working languages of the EU.
Bist du sicher? Es gibt etwa 100 Millionen Personen, die, nur in
Deutschland, Deutsch sprechen. Und wir haben auch die Schweiz, Österreich...
Ich denke, daß, hier auf dem Kontinent, es mehr Deutsch-sprechende Personen
als Französisch-sprechende gibt. Deutsch ist ein sehr wichtigeres
Verständigungsmittel als Französisch.

(I beg your pardon, my dear German L1 speakers, but I couldn't resist to
test my (terrible) knowledge of the lang)

> It was either Mrs Thatcher herself or one of her henchmen that referred to
> the EU putting Europe "under the heel of the jackboot".  Behind the
> apparent humor of the piece is the xenophobic message of: "Don't let
Europe
> get its hands on Britain.  If you do, Brussells will regulate everything,
> even our language if it can, and the "German dream" will finally come true
> - Europe will be 'under ze jackboot'."
Well, Mrs Thatcher is (in)famous for her Euro-avversion.

>
> Ray,
> a long standing Europhile.
Unfortunately one of the few, AFAIK, on the other side of the Channel. I
wish Englishmen were all as you!

Luca

'Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt!'
Schiller.