A 10-year-old from Singapore has announced she’s not impressed by a Luxembourg-born journalist who recently became a sensation by reporting the news in six languages. “He’s an adult, and he only speaks six languages?” said 10-year-old Grace Chau. “I was conversant in Mandarin, Malay, Tamil, Singlish, Tagalog, and Cantonese by the time I stopped wearing […]
On this date: first anglophone amused by ‘dat ass’
This year marks an important moment in the history of anglophones in Luxembourg. It was on this date 200 years ago that the first English speaker found humor in the Luxembourgish clause “dat ass.” Welshman Thomas Lewis spent several weeks in Luxembourg City on his way to Switzerland where he hoped to start a new […]
Man who only speaks English annoyed by people who only speak French
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE – A man who moved to Luxembourg last year under the belief he could easily get by with English has announced that he is officially fed up with dealing with people here who only speak French. “Luxembourg isn’t France or Belgium,” he said at an expat support-group meeting on Monday evening. “It’s very international […]
Irish English replaces British English as EU working language
Following the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union at the end of January, the EU has announced that Irish English will replace British English as the union’s primary working language. The change, effective immediately, was announced on Monday by European Commission president Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, who says the unity of […]
‘Let’s make it happen’ must be changed into an official language
LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — Following the failure of a petition to require the Chamber of Deputies to debate adding English as the country’s fourth official language, leaders have decided to scrap “Let’s make it happen,” admitting that Luxembourg’s brand tagline should, for obvious reasons, be in French, German, or Luxembourgish. “True, we promote ourselves as an international […]
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