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No, #brexit won't remove English from the official EU languages nor from the procedural EU languages, because that would be nuts.
https://social.heldscal.la/url/1042634
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Brexit leads to the unfettered rise of Euro-English?
> “With the British gone, no one will be there to carry on the work of defending the structural integrity of British English in the face of competition from not only American English, but also from [second language] users who increasingly utilise features indicative of discoursal nativisation which are in the processes of becoming systematic across continental Europe.”
https://social.heldscal.la/url/1045060
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@sixohsix Let's hope Euro-English keeps the spelling "utilise" then. :-D
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@efraim ... or Blade Runner street pidgin? (don't remember the actual name given, shame on me)
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@efraim My first parsing: Nobody had pants, people just wore underwear in the office. Then I re-read and understood what you meant. :-D