Published 7y ago - Dan Geddes
By Dan Geddes AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year. “It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-ob... More »
Published 18y ago - Dan Geddes
Not German. That’s the first thing they tell you, in the Dutch language books and everywhere else. Well, it’s really not. Linguists even date Dutch as the older of the two languages, though with a common ancestor. But there is still some bitterness... More »