EU language wars

[Skipper]

If you are going with the most spoken language you would need to translate to Chinese and Hindi, before English. Then it would be Spanish, Arabic, and Bengali.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/mo...guages.htm

However, if it is for communication in technology, the best language would be Chinese and English. Most of the manufacturing countries in the world adopt English as the main language of communication.

Chinese and Hindi would be an idea if we weren't talking about the EU, English is the most widely spoken across Europe. 51% of EU citizens understand English, according to wiki.

Each country will always use their own language. Even during the roman empire, latin was only used in administration, law, and a few other official areas. Other than that, each area continued speaking its own language. It will be no different under the EU fascist superstate. And that's a fact. Don't even try to deny it.

The discussion here is about a common language for a patent law, and I guess as a wider subject further laws, nobody is suggesting the countries give up their languages for use in their own countries.

[Ashendant]

If you are going with the most spoken language you would need to translate to Chinese and Hindi, before English. Then it would be Spanish, Arabic, and Bengali.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/mo...guages.htm

However, if it is for communication in technology, the best language would be Chinese and English. Most of the manufacturing countries in the world adopt English as the main language of communication.

Chinese and Hindi would be an idea if we weren't talking about the EU, English is the most widely spoken across Europe. 51% of EU citizens understand English, according to wiki.

Each country will always use their own language. Even during the roman empire, latin was only used in administration, law, and a few other official areas. Other than that, each area continued speaking its own language. It will be no different under the EU fascist superstate. And that's a fact. Don't even try to deny it.

The discussion here is about a common language for a patent law, and I guess as a wider subject further laws, nobody is suggesting the countries give up their languages for use in their own countries.

Chinese and Hindi aren't pretty much stuck in their own countries?

[downbeatplumb]

How about using latin? Then no one would win, but no one would lose.

[LastPoet]

Portuguese should be the language spoken, its the most beautifull one in the world

But I wouldn't mind if English was the choice.

[Skipper]

If you are going with the most spoken language you would need to translate to Chinese and Hindi, before English. Then it would be Spanish, Arabic, and Bengali.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/mo...guages.htm

However, if it is for communication in technology, the best language would be Chinese and English. Most of the manufacturing countries in the world adopt English as the main language of communication.

Chinese and Hindi would be an idea if we weren't talking about the EU, English is the most widely spoken across Europe. 51% of EU citizens understand English, according to wiki.

Each country will always use their own language. Even during the roman empire, latin was only used in administration, law, and a few other official areas. Other than that, each area continued speaking its own language. It will be no different under the EU fascist superstate. And that's a fact. Don't even try to deny it.

The discussion here is about a common language for a patent law, and I guess as a wider subject further laws, nobody is suggesting the countries give up their languages for use in their own countries.

Chinese and Hindi aren't pretty much stuck in their own countries?

Thats pretty much what I was saying. Suggesting either of them languages in this situation is silly.

[leo-rcc]

Thats pretty much what I was saying. Suggesting either of them languages in this situation is silly.

You are saying to make the patents uniform, but only for the EU? Why not do it right and do it global?

Secondly, I was not suggesting anything, but going for "the most spoken language" as the criterion and then pick English is wrong. THAT is what I was saying.

[Skipper]

The discussion here is on an EU wide patent law. English is the most widely spoken language among the EU nations. Even if we were talking world wide then English would still be a better choice than Chinese and Hindi as already stated, them languages, while spoken by a large amount of people, are confined mostly to their own heavily populated nations.

[Ashendant]

Thats pretty much what I was saying. Suggesting either of them languages in this situation is silly.

You are saying to make the patents uniform, but only for the EU? Why not do it right and do it global?

Secondly, I was not suggesting anything, but going for "the most spoken language" as the criterion and then pick English is wrong. THAT is what I was saying.

Technically english would be correct too, while english is not the most spoken language natively, english could have between 500 million or 1.4 billion non-native speakers in fact it's claimed that just india and china have half a billion english speakers, and almost every country is pushing for the english language in their public schools