Wednesday, May 14, 2003
No After Eights for Aznar and Berlusconi!
In 2001, BusinessWeek told us how it was (and still is, I suppose): Speak English or be doomed, whoever you are.
"Politicians such as Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, who both require interpreters, miss out on English-language dinner chatter and one-to-one schmoozing at Euro-gatherings"
Good lesson in RealLinguistik. Only problem is, it's in er...English. So how are the 71% of Europeans (BW's stats not mine) incable of holding a conversation in my mother-tongue supposed to be frightened into having lessons or doing their homework in the "Lycées" and the "Scuole" if they can't read it?"
So be a brick, read the article and spread the word.
Vive l'Europe eh?
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