21 - 27 January 2019 | 162 comments (162 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

BBC considers setting up international base in Belgium after Brexit | Politics | The Guardian

The BBC is considering Brussels as the location for a new EU base after Brexit to allow it to continue to broadcast across the continent.

by generic on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 06:51:35 PM EST
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BWAH! (none / 0)

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 06:56:39 PM EST
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Belgian Broadcasting Corporation. Will they have to broadcast in French and Dutch as well?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 06:58:31 PM EST
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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 07:51:52 PM EST
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Brussels is quite tricky on division ... not Dutch of course but Flemish! 😡

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 07:56:11 PM EST
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When I lived in Brussels (and also worked in Antwerp) everybody I knew called it Dutch (or Nederlands). I think the distinction is mainly made by foreigners, the way German book reviews distinguish between translated from the English or from the American (sorry Australians. You don't count, as usual).

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 08:41:51 PM EST
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Je hebt helemaal gelijk! Heel bijzonder, wij in Nederland maken juist het onderscheid: de Belgen spreken Vlaams. Er zijn zoveel bijzondere uitdrukkingen in het Vlaams wat je niet hoort in Nederland. Een van de mooiste vindt ik zelf: kuisvrouwe. Zal je NOOIT horen in Nederland!

○ Vlaanderen weer beetje minder Vlaams: scholen moedigen allochtonen aan om hun moedertaal in de klas te spreken

○ Het 'Vlaams', een taal of een misverstand? [pdf]

Flemish, a language or a misunderstanding?
My contribution "'Flemish', a language or a misunderstanding" describes the language
development in Dutch-speaking Belgium and dwells on the reasons why Flemish is often
considered an autonomous language, next to Dutch. The international misunderstanding
about the position of Flemish is due to historical French language ideology and the language
nationalism of both Dutchmen and Flemings. Dutch should be considered a pluricentric
language with two natiolects: Netherlandic Dutch and Belgian Dutch (and Surinam Dutch
as a third one}.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 08:56:11 PM EST
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There used to be a language called Serbo-Croatian.

Now there are two.

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy (Chomsky?)

(That must explain why there is no "Swiss" language)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Wed Jan 30th, 2019 at 02:10:52 PM EST
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(Chomsky?)

Max Weinreich (but he attributes it to an audience comment in a lecture of his).

(That must explain why there is no "Swiss" language)

Then why is there a North Macedonian language?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Jan 30th, 2019 at 02:16:17 PM EST
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You'll be surprised ... the Swiss are fully prepared for any attack and do have a Navy. 😃
Learned from a few years in a job for a US tech company w hq in Riverside CA and European hq in Zug ... where else 😉
Excellent lunches and wines ... many moons ago.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Wed Jan 30th, 2019 at 03:07:01 PM EST
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Count Bosnian and Montenegrin and you have four.

by fjallstrom on Wed Jan 30th, 2019 at 04:12:15 PM EST
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Re: Brexit ENGLISH (none / 0)

Ethnologue
It's a sobering resource about imperial basket cases and "globalism" since, oh, 1945.

archived
Step 1.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Jan 25th, 2019 at 02:35:29 PM EST
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Re: Brexit ENGLISH (none / 0)

Walp, Varadkar toed his D-K threshold: "Victimized", he says. "Triggers" friend and foe alike, brushes off fleas.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Jan 25th, 2019 at 11:34:29 PM EST
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Also I must note that some fun hating editor changed the headline to "international base" from "international HQ".

by generic on Thu Jan 24th, 2019 at 07:03:44 PM EST
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21 - 27 January 2019 | 162 comments (162 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)