Comments on: Euroenglish Exists – Just Read Any EU Document https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/euroenglish-eu-documents/ We provide information, analysis, memes and entertainment on European matters every day. We believe making Europeans is the key to making Europe. Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:20:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 By: Jan Bosmans https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/euroenglish-eu-documents/#comment-26202 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:20:18 +0000 https://mycountryeurope.com/?p=17494#comment-26202 ]]> In reply to Jan Bosmans.

Not ‘agree’ but ‘agere’. That automatic spelling corrector drives you mad! 😊

]]> By: Jan Bosmans https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/euroenglish-eu-documents/#comment-26201 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:16:36 +0000 https://mycountryeurope.com/?p=17494#comment-26201 Very interesting, but… the author makes a few unjustified assumptions about so-called ‘English’ words. For instance, ‘actor’ is in fact Latin. It means ‘someone who does something’, from the verb agree, ‘to do, to act’. Idem ‘axis’, Latin for ‘axle’, plural… Yes, ‘axes’!

]]> By: Mikael https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/euroenglish-eu-documents/#comment-26149 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:59:48 +0000 https://mycountryeurope.com/?p=17494#comment-26149 Let me inject the phrase “to table a motion” that in US and EN english mean the complete opposite of each other. US english it means to postpone the motion for a future date, in EN english it means to put it up for a vote. In Swedish, the meaning to “table” (“bordlägga”) follows the US logic, which is “we’ll put this on the table and bring it up in the future”.

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