European Union official language

The UE has already 20 official languages, hereafter:

español
dansk
deutsch
elinika
english
français
italiano
nederlands
português
suomi
svenska
Čeština
Eesti
Latviesu
Lietuviu
Magyar
Malti
Polski
Slovenčina
Slovenščina

And here the percentile of Europeans that speak them (mother tongue) :

Deutsch 24%
français 16%
English 16%
italiano 16%
español 11%
Nederlands 6%
elinika 3%
português 3%
svenska 2%
dansk 1%
suomi 1%

The possibility that Europe will have an official language is as likely as snowflakes in July.

Only in northern hemisphere, at sea level and below the polar artic circle...

as Francis says Europe already has 20 official languages. What do we want another official language for?

I think language has caused more arguments than anything else. It should be abolished and civilised society return to a state of grunts and gesticulations...

I vote Suomi.

Francis
I was on the operation that built the Thule airbase in 1951. The airbase is in Northern Greenland above the Arctic Circle. I can attest to the fact that it does not snow there in July.

au - did you met the Last King?

Since I did not see Spanish on the list I felt lost and possibly even confused and then I decided to select Greek. No, I did not do so because Ellinas is listed as being in Greece, in point of fact, I placed my vote on the opening page of A2K prior to even reading the post. (I'm a U.S. citizen, it is well known we vote without checking into all the facts first.) I chose Greek because I feel it is the overlooked language which would help unite us all.

Okay, I really selected it because I just wanted to.

Languages are listed in their original language, so español=Spanish.

Francis
Whatever you meant to ask is lost in the translation.

Au - dont worry...

I'm still abit confused about this poll and the listings there since indeed the EU has all those already mentioned official languages.


(But therefore Francis' 'question' arrived here :wink: )

Good Lord! If the EU had only one "official" language, what would we translators and interpreters do for work? I'm already saddened that so many Latvian government people have learned to speak English over the past dozen years. I used to get a lot of assignments as an interpreter when these folks came to Washington. Now the assignments have become a mere trickle. When the 10 new nations were admitted to the EU and to NATO last year, I had the honor of accompanying the Latvian PM to the Oval Office and into the Rose Garden as President Bush welcomed all 10. Mr. Emsis, the PM, was one of only two who needed an interpreter. I was so glad.

" The Hellenic orthopaedic physicians have synchronized their dynamism and energy with the European Organization of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, to generate this symbiotic and not ephemeral synthesis of charismatic, academic scholars, and are enthusiastic with the atmosphere of euphoria and analogous ecstasy in Dodecanisa, Rodos.

Rodos is a graphic Hellenic metropolitan center in the Aegean archipelagos, with myriads of archaeological and historical sites. Rodos is a geographical paradise of cryptic and chimerical icons of idyllic charm, amalgamated with Hellenic gastronomy of mousaka, souvlaki, ouzo emporia and euphoria of the rhyme and rhythm of bouzouki, Byzantine and Spanoudakis music.

A plethora of basic and didactic themes in the sphere of orthopaedics and traumatology, such as trauma of the musculoskeletal system, arthroscopic and arthroplasty surgery, pediatric orthopaedics, poly-trauma, podiatric surgery, carpus and dactylic surgery with traumatic and genetic anomalies, microsurgery, spondylopathies like scoliosis, kyphosis and spondylolisthesis, osteoporosis and pharmacologic and prophylactic therapeutic policies with be emphasized.

Diagnostic methods and etiological therapy of traumatic, non - physiological and pathological syndromes, therapeutic schemes and strategies, will be analyzed and synthesized at this academic symposium on the basis of a democratic climate and with the scope of a non-dogmatic and egocentric dialogue, which I prophesize will be an historic phenomenon and paradigm of dynamic synergy and harmony between polyethnic orthopaedic physicians of the European Epirus.

To paraphrase, with the phobia and dilemma of being tautological, let me emphasize that the logistics and machinations in this academic symposium, will generate the scheme and type of our harmonic synergy and syndesmosis.

Pragmatically, it is my thesis and not hypothesis that the next phase and programmed orthopaedic symposium in Helsinki, which I eulogize, will be as dynamic and with colossal kyros, as in Rodos, Hellas.

I apologize for my eulogistic demagogy and if my etymological glossary is based on philosophic or symbolic metaphors and lexical hyperbole, please sympathize with me and I apologize for the idiosyncrasy of a zealous Hellenic, practicing orthopaedic physician who is also fanatically enthusiastic about the giant anode of European propaedutics and academics in orthopaedics and traumatology". Dr. Panayotis Soukakos,

Kyrie,

The scope of my rhetoric is to emphasize the thesis, and not hypothesis, that strategy, as strategic analysis and synthesis, has an anthropocentric orientation, and is of Greek origin.

Its etymology originates from « stratos » and « igesia », and was the master art of a scope to any nike. It is based on the epistemological work of handling and maneuvering all tactical data about an organization, and about all else this organization faces in its agora. The glossary here is Greek, as in all epistemological arts. Strategy is epistemological as it is rational, and an art as it is a face of the reality. Its absolute reason for existence is the dramatic and severe shaking an organization realises in its forum by the practices of its antagonists. In analogy, it is based on the very basis, and the basic hypothesis of, economics.

Strategy, as described in my prologue, synonymous to planning, is not a panacea in itself; it is rather a policy. It is professed as a systemic, systematic and epistemological mode of a microscopic and a macroscopic analysis of an organization: its system parameters are analyses in an ideal reproduction -in an iconic scheme- of the antagonism in its periphery; then, a synthesis or mixing of options is concluded into different annual or omni-present plans, with which it will face the idiosyncratic monopolistic, oligopolistic, or complex dynamic and polymorphous, cataclysmic competition in its menace. All organizations dance in their idiomorphic and heterogeneous economic and political fora as athletes agonize in a marathon. An organization then, has to maintain an orthodox strategy if it is not to be traumatized by its competitors, with a gnomon to harmonize its production in a skeptical and eclectic piloting of its army, facing the antithesis of the stranger organizations

It is an anathema for all organizations who imitate their competitors as idols, to be stigmatized in apology to their archons, conclude to sporadic and periodic paralysis and utopian nomad practices, and face a catastrophic exodus. Organizations that do not manage to estimate the anatomy of the strategy of their competitors, discerning their strategic inclination, can not produce a competitive management through which to economize and antagonize. Strategy then is dilated and remembered as an Olympian program, an aristocratic method, an esoteric organizational meditation, an oligarchic algorithm, an apotheosis of logic. It is the anthropomorphic and anthropocentric artery of the organization and its periscope scoping around its perimeter. Mastering strategy illuminates organizational problems, and liberates from a plethora of dilemmas and risks, and from the oxymoron paradox of organizational kleistophobic (claustrophobic) homogeneity and teratogenesis. Legend cosmopolitan organizations of our era are characterized by dynamism, dictated by their parallel enthusiasm in practicing strategic theory. In antithesis, organizations of our epoch with absence of plans and apostasy from strategy are diagnosed having symptoms of nomad practice and melancholic politics, and syndromes of prodigal organic ontogenesis and atopous neologisms in pandemonium. This could be concluded by paraphrasing the Heracletian apophthegm of the prologue -a mortal angel for such organizations-, as a periphrastic lectic for those who are present but do not hear. For all these reasons, strategy should be professed in all gymnasia, as it is theorized and professed here with us.

As an epilogue Kyrie, the author sincerely apologises for tyrannising you, his audience, with his Hellenic/Greek phraseology. The confessed aesthetic melody of the phrases describing strategy in this rhetoric had not a demagogue character, but maintained a sincere pedagogical and didactic deontology, scoping to generate the magic phenomenon of euphoria present in all those who have the opportunity to meditate through Greek logos. My eulogies to you all who sympathize with this reason, and my eucharists to all else.Tassos Athanassopoulos

" Kyrie,

I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas.

With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe.

In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic.

I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.''
Prof. Xenophon Zolotas

" Kyrie,

It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices.

Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.

Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic.

In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists.

Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme.

A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic.

Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically.

These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic.

The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them.

I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology.

In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers."
Prof. Xenophon Zolotas

The genesis of classical drama was not symptomatic. Aneuphoria of charismatic and talented protagonists showed fantastic scenes of historic episodes. The prologue, the theme and the epilogue, comprised the trilogy of drama while synthesis, analysis and synopsis characterized the phraseology of the text. The syntax and phraseology used by scholars, academicians and philosophers in their rhetoric, had many grammatical idioms and idiosyncrasies.

The protagonists periodically used pseudonyms. Anonymity was a syndrome that characterized the theatrical atmosphere.
The panoramic fantasy, the mystique, the melody, the aesthetics, the use of the cosmetic epithets are characteristics of drama.
Eventhrough the theaters were physically gigantic, there was noneed for microphones because the architecture and the acoustics would echo isometrically and crystal - clear. Many epistomologists of physics, aerodynamics, acoustics, electronics, electromagnetics can not analyze - explain the ideal and isometric acoustics of Hellenic theaters even today.

There were many categories of drama: classical drama, melodrama, satiric, epic, comedy, etc. The syndrome of xenophobia or dyslexia was overcome by the pathos of the actors who practiced methodically and emphatically. Acrobatics were also euphoric. There was a plethora of anecdotal themes, with which the acrobats would electrify the ecstatic audience with scenes from mythical and historical episodes.

Some theatric episodes were characterized as scandalous and blasphemous. Pornography, bigamy, hemophilia, nymphomania, polyandry, polygamy and heterosexuality were dramatized in a pedagogical way so the mysticism about them would not cause phobia or anathema or taken as anomaly but through logic, dialogue and analysis skepticism and the pathetic or cryptic mystery behind them would be dispelled.

It is historically and chronologically proven that theater emphasized pedagogy, idealism and harmony. Paradoxically it also energized patriotism a phenomenon that symbolized ethnically character and phenomenal heroism. Dr. John Kalaras

Nice post, elkos. You are a dynamic poligraphist!