12 May 2017

Linguistic wars!

The EU President Juncker, before addressing a conference, said that the influence of English language is declining. And gave his address in French. (See here)

Really? French is the language that is gaining ground? If he really wanted to prove the point of English declining – which every grammarian will agree, his speech should have read something like….

OMG!
Hashtag Brexit. WTH?
UK EU BFF? LOL!
TTYL

Or something like that … ๐Ÿ™‚