One of the key issues when working with the European Commission and in Europe in general is getting to grips with Eurospeak. Eurospeak can be confusing, complicated and sometimes elitist. It could also be avoided. In this article I'll talk about the English variant, Euro-English.
Linguists love to be tolerant about the way languages grow.
Anyone trying to communicate in writing, and who wants their message to end up in their readers' brains rather than their bins, is well advised to follow a few rules and stay anchored in the reality of a real language. We also instructed them to KISS - Keep It Short and Simple. I spend much of my working time trying to eradicate Eurojargon and bad English from texts written in the European Commission. Mr A welcomed the participants to the ZZZ meeting, in particular to the Malta delegation, that attended the meeting for the first time. He passed the floor to Mrs B who was going to intervene on behalf the French Presidency of the European Union.