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Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

Yk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Give it a few more years and what's left of humanity will be speaking either Russian or Chinese

I'd lean towards Russian (it sounds so pretty to me)

I doubt we will get to choose

I meant to say "I hope it's Russian"

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Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on Yesterday at 05:06:10 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 05:03:44 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 05:01:00 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

Yk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Give it a few more years and what's left of humanity will be speaking either Russian or Chinese

I'd lean towards Russian (it sounds so pretty to me)

I doubt we will get to choose

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on Yesterday at 05:06:10 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 05:03:44 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 05:01:00 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

Yk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Give it a few more years and what's left of humanity will be speaking either Russian or Chinese

I'd lean towards Russian (it sounds so pretty to me)

Quote from: Françal I. Lux on Yesterday at 09:02:09 AMWe seem to be lacking a comprehensive account of certain parts of the kingdom's history, particularly what happened from Ben's final years to Reunision and John's coronation.

I know AD has expressed frustration that the Republic's discussion group has gone offline, but the 2004-2020 Kingdom Wittenberg is still online and just requires people to actually read through it and compile the greatest hits.

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Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

Yk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Give it a few more years and what's left of humanity will be speaking either Russian or Chinese

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 05:03:44 PMYk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Well, then we would still have the same problems except that except Anglos being complacent, itd be Francophones. It wouldn't actually solve anything.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 08:21:17 AMI believe PMQs are usually answered spontaneously, instead of being sent the questions and having the answers prepped in advance.

This is inaccurate. PMQs in my country and I believe in Britain are submitted with a few days notice so that the Government can prepare a proper answer. That said, supplementary questions are extemporary.

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Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

Yk I really wish everyone spoke French rather than English as the global lingua franca (and Gaeilge as the main language in Éire)

Quote from: Mximo Malt on Yesterday at 04:59:35 PMI really hate that part about Ireland...

So do I, and so do many Irish, but this is what happens when, after independence, Ireland was still a poor country dependent on labour migration to the UK or the US and so speaking English was still an economic necessity.

My sympathy is still with Ireland's first ambassador to the League of Nation, who always addressed that body in French, because he could not speak Irish and he'd be damned if he'd speak English.

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Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 30, 2025, 06:12:05 PMlike Russia trying to eliminate the Ukrainian language in occupied Donetsk

Irrelevant but any part of Ukraine east of the Dnepr speaks Russian arleady anyway, also inhabited by Russians. Ukrainian is spoken instead anywhere west of the Dnepr, also inhabited by actual Ukrainians.

This is not true at all, and in fact is Russian propaganda. Eastern Ukrainians are not "Russians" just because Russian (or surzhyk, Russian-Ukrainian pidgin) is their first language. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who comes from Kryvyi Riv in south-eastern Ukraine, speaks Russian as his first language. Most of Ireland speaks English as their first language but they kind of take murderous exception if you say they're English.

I really hate that part about Ireland...