Linguistic purity in the EU

Language Log 2019-06-29

Summary:

"Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers", The Economist 6/29/2019: The european union gets a lot of flak. All right, it isn't literally blasted with anti-aircraft fire, but you know what we mean. One ongoing battle (ok, nobody died) involves the use of words. Earlier this year, the European Parliament's agriculture committee voted to prohibit […]

Link:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43432

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Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

historical

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/29/2019, 23:13

Date published:

06/29/2019, 17:40