EVE General Discussion

No!

Obviously French is superior to any form of Latin. Terrible idea!

Edit: Terrible idea worthy of a podding .

Classic, but at least this one is funny

In what way is it obvious?

Mail sent! I'll let you know what the outcome is when there is one (unless CCP Falcon or someone else responds themselves).

I wondered why a French forum didn't go up at the same time as the German tbh, there seem to be plenty of French speakers ingame.

If you get your subforum can we come in and practice our terrible school French on you?

Of course, you are more than welcome.

Le baguette

Goddamn man. It sure is good to have you back.

Italian would be the closest to Latin out of all of them. It's a fun language to speak and learn, much more fun to use than English when conversing. Not as effective (unless you're swearing), but still more fun.

Note: Italian-Americans are not Italians and do not speak Italian, therefore they don't count. Nearly everything that comes out of their mouth in reference to the Italian language is complete nonsense and/or utterly ridiculous. That said, getting any Italian over 40 to speak English would probably be more difficult than learning Latin.

Nah, the traditional enemy thing is only a British perspective, *their* prime enemy for centuries has indeed been France, and the tabloids and yellow press (The Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph...) like to fuel the fire today still. The French, on the other hand, have been at war repeatedly with most of´Europe, with various incarnations of the german empires for a prime enemy (the Habsburg empires, the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian empire, Prussia, Germany) and so the French do not generally think of the British or English as The Old Enemy.

The reason the French do not speak English so well is more simple I believe: they do not need to. French is a widespread language with quite a lot of speakers and secondary speakers and a big market, which means much of everything gets translated and dubbed, that airline companies, car rental agencies, hotels etc throughout the world will have employees who speak French, that it's no trouble using translators to conduct business or diplomacy etc. It's pretty much the same reason the British or Americans can't speak other languages for the most part, they don't need to. Add to that that French was pretty much a universal language of´the educated just a few generations ago, the way English has become post WW2, old habbits die hard.