The
European Union is now making it simpler for me to explain. The EU committee on
linguistic problems has commissioned a study to quantify the number of
translators authorized to interpret official documents from Romanian into
Moldavian language. Moldova has strong ties to EU member Romania and Romanian passports (for EU citizenship) are often granted by Romania to Moldovan citizens.
The
conclusion of the study was that 95.26 percent of Romanians understand
spontaneously the official language of the Republic of Moldova, the Moldavian
language. Shocking to the researchers was the fact that the new Indo-European language
appeared in 1990.
Dumbfounded,
the British researchers advanced the only plausible explanation that “Romanians
have genetic intelligence and the rare talent to communicate in foreign
languages.” To support this theory, the argument was brought up that 4.74
percent of the Romanian population does not show this spontaneous intelligence
and is represented by national minorities like Hungarians and Germans who do
not understand Romanian either.
The
linguistic researchers had no clue that the Hungarian minorities do speak
Romanian as well as Hungarian since the Romanian government had built schools and
universities over the years in which children could study in Hungarian, German,
or Romanian, or all of the above.
Only
British linguists and bureaucracy gone wild could come up with such earth-shattering
conclusions. I wonder how much money was spent on commissioning and executing the
study. I would have given them the
answer for free.
Did
anybody tell this illustrious body of EU researchers that the Republic of
Moldova had been part of Romania for many years and that the majority of the
population still speaks Romanian today?
The
Republic of Moldova did become an independent country in 1990 with its official
language, Moldavian; however, this language is a dialect of Romanian. There is
still a province left in eastern Romania called Moldova. The rest of Moldova had
been carved out and given to the Russians back and forth during the various
world war conflicts. There are thousands of Svetlanas and Ivans in the Republic
of Moldova who speak both Russian and Romanian.
Bureaucracy
has indeed gone wild and stupid.
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