Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

In article <mnlb0pFkoo9U2@mid.individual.net>,
Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

I spend all my life in computing contexts, and have never heard anyone
say the word. But then I had never heard anyone say "informatics"
until our department was renamed to that. Both sound like the sort of
made-up English found in EU technical documents.

EU? 'Performant' is an unremarkable adjective in French:

As is "informatique". But we probably wouldn't have picked them up
from the French directly. The EU has in recent times been the route
into English for many such words, as documents written in one language
are translated into those of the other member countries.

(English is of course still an official EU language.)

'Still'?
Officially all 24 languages of the EU are 'working languages',
but only three are commonly used. (English, French, and German)
The others are almost always translated into.

Of these English is the most common,
and also the most widely understood,

Jan


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Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

On 13/11/25 23:11, Richard Tobin wrote:

(English is of course still an official EU language.)

Thank the Irish for that. If they choose instead to make Irish their
official EU language, the UK is screwed.

Come on, those Brits always overestimate their importance
in the scheme of things.
Their exit has not made much of a difference,

Jan

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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

On 13/11/2025 12:31, Peter Moylan wrote:

On 13/11/25 23:11, Richard Tobin wrote:

(English is of course still an official EU language.)

Thank the Irish for that. If they choose instead to make Irish their official EU language, the UK is screwed.

Why? What do we care what language the EU uses?

And why would the EU care about Britain being, or not being a member?
They have been useless right from the start,
and they never were able to play the part
that they could and should have played.

Jan

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On 13/11/2025 21:19, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl wrote:

Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

On 13/11/25 23:11, Richard Tobin wrote:

(English is of course still an official EU language.)

Thank the Irish for that. If they choose instead to make Irish their
official EU language, the UK is screwed.

Come on, those Brits always overestimate their importance
in the scheme of things.
Their exit has not made much of a difference,

Jan

It has for the Brits...

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