Paphos Life

If the English language is not so strong in the EU now as you suggested,why was 90% of the songs sang in English at the Eurovision and especially your own country?

I doubt that Mr Juncker reads this forum but certainly Wikipedia can supply some insight into the rules of the Eurovision.

The information you are seeking can be found in the section under the heading "Language issues and English-language prevalence" in the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_ ... ng_Contest

Besides, the Eurovision Song Contest is nothing to do with the EU.

Lifesabeach wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 9:08 pm Hence we now have BE and AE!

And the rest is all BS.

Love it !

Lifesabeach wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 9:08 pm

Dominic wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2017 7:08 pm Besides, the Eurovision Song Contest is nothing to do with the EU.

Exactly!

Many years ago, French was the recognised 'Diplomatic language'. With the advent of the internet, English gained massive strength in the world - and encouraged the acceptibility of its offshoot 'American English' in its wake. Hence we now have BE and AE!

The world missed a chance there. Had the world stuck to the original character set, we could all have had a single, unified language; English. But no, they had to invent Unicode (though they should have called it BabelCode), and all of a sudden, the internet was awash with different languages.

Of course, had the original character set been Chinese, Japanese or something else, I might think differently.