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		regularjack on April 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and impr... It's not only the French, would be the same for the Portuguese, for example. English is an official language of only two EU countries, if I'm not mistaken.

iso1631 on April 14, 2023 [–]

Cyprus and Ireland

French is official language of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of Italy.

Reality of course is that English is (ironically) the Lingua Franca of the world.

(I was watching Iron Man 2 the other day, Tony Stark had a fairly lengthy scene of him speaking French which was quite nice)

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