Re: [Corpora-List] Constitution

From: Jean Veronis (Jean.Veronis@up.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 13:09:14 MET DST

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    Follow up:

    There used to be 20 "official languages" in the Union:
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/index_en.html

    The new UE Constitution does not define nor use the term "official
    languages", which is extremely disconcerting. I explain more, with
    excerpts of the Constitution, here:

    http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2005/05/languages-end-of-official-languages.html

    Is this the sign of a generalized linguistic drift towards English
    within Europe? Can our tools and corpora bring some kind of help (or is
    it too late anyway)? How can we welcome three more languages very soon
    (romanian, bulgarian, croatian) ?

    What do you think?

    --jv
      http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/veronis
      http://aixtal.blogspot.com

     



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