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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

If this is supposed to be about the EU, why is the post in french?

Only a small fraction of the EU speaks that.

[-] Vittelius@feddit.de 9 points 1 month ago

If you click the link, the site will automatically be translated into your language. But since the organisers are French, it will preview in French.

I agree, that seems like an oversight

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Doesn't translate anything for me

[-] Vittelius@feddit.de 3 points 1 month ago

weird. Must be a bug.

You can change the language manually using the drop-down in the top right

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

That's true for basically any European language though, right?

And English is no longer the obvious lingua franca since the UK left

[-] roboto@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

I think English is still the most obvious choice as most people speak it as a second language. In fact I would want that EU wide kids learn English from grade 1 on and ideally we’d be all bilingual in a couple decades.

[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

And the website's called tax-the-rich.eu, not imposez-les-richous.eu

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

The correct translation should be "Décapiter les riches" if it was french Citizens' initiative. /s

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