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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <D3ozHL.rHq@austin.ibm.com>
           olivier@glasnost.austin.ibm.com "Olivier Cremel" writes:
> > This is typical nationalism."The powerful countries support this; therefore
>  so
> > should the weaker."          It is also self-serving: while I applaud your
> > study of French & German, any Englishman who supports English as the sole
> > language of Europe cannot be considered unbiased in his opinion.
> 
> You might have a point. Why not, if a Europe-wide poll is to be
> undertaken, forbid people to vote for their native language ?
> I wonder what kind of results we'd get.

If, as I suggested, the poll was done by STV, I doubt if it would make
much difference.

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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
