ENGLISH SANS ENGLAND (Satis Shroff) Brexit? Ah, the Anglophobes in the European continent, especially Germans, are rubbing their hands and saying ‘Gimme Five!’ Why? You might ask. The reason is clear: to get a job in the bureaus in Brussels, you had to have English as your mother tongue because all the Eurocrats used English, making other languages useless in daily life. And now is the right time to bid the speakers of the Queen’s English goodbye since they want to cross the English Channel and turn their back on the old Continent. Achtung, halt! What about the Maltese, the Irish Sturgeon’s Scots? The Maltese never uttered a word about an exit, and the Scots want to remain in the EU, even after the Brexit. The Scots are thrifty and clever in this respect. English is spoken in all the former British colonies along with 4,6 million Irish and 430,000 Maltese. How many people speak the Teutonic language? A good 100 million have Deutsch as their mother-tongue. Germ...
