Post by burfordTjusticeWell shucks, golly gee....who gives a damn.
http://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-official-eu-language-after-brexit-senior-mep/
Businesspeople and educated persons everywhere will continue to use English, among other languages, if it gets things done.
A couple of years ago In Vienna (that's in a country called Austria)I was in a hotel lounge, and listened to a business conversation at the next table. The man closest to me was either Austrian or German (according to his documents)and the other two men seemed, by their faces and sporadic cellphone "asides", to be Chinese and South Asian. Their conversation was entirely in English.
Longer ago I was in Oslo, and being lost and unsure on a T-Banen platform, I held out my rail leaflet to the only other bystanders, a woman and a girl in full Bangladeshi costume. I pointed to the rail line on the leaflet and raised my eyebrows. The girl answered in Norwegian. I shrugged helplessly and shook my head. The girl chattered to her mother and then spoke to me in perfect English: "My mum thinks you might be German, but you're probably English aren't you?" I was gobsmacked.
The French may do what they will, but they won't stop non-EU Norwegian Bangladeshi girls and EU Austrian businessmen, or anyone else from communicating in the most effective way at that moment.