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> You're thinking that because the UK left the EU it will change the main language countries use to speak to each others

Yes, and that's precisely the irony. Europeans still need to subject themselves to Anglo "cultural imperialism" or absolutely nothing works, starting with communication across national borders.

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The english language has ceased to be something unique to the anglocultural world a while ago. You're making this out to be much more than it is

And the US still uses Arabic numerals in spite of banning visas for basically every Arab country in the world.

> Europeans still need to subject themselves to Anglo "cultural imperialism" or absolutely nothing works, starting with communication across national borders.

Do you have a single clue about Europe? That's not true at all.

First, we co-opted English. It’s now ours as well. Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English

Besides that, besides my native language and English, I had German and French in school (which are required topics in our country). So I can speak the native language of all nearby countries.

Auf Wiedersehen!

I would hesitate to even call that English: "Many of the features suggested to be characteristic of Euro-English could be identified as learners' mistakes."

In short, it's just like Chinglish.

We actually already use Globish that has different idioms and so on. End we can express different kind of informations there.

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