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You can take colonies from the englishman but you can't make englishman want to stop colonizing.


As much as I like some historical reference like the next person, I think this discussion here takes a wrong turn through comments like these, sarcastic or not. I think OP is free to criticize the process of registering a company, but should rather give suggestions to improve said process instead of ranting about the official language of a nation.

People are different, aren't they? On one side I have a friend living in Austria for about a decade now and he still complains that quite some information isn't available in English. He doesn't even see the irony as an Italian, makes no attempt to learn the official language (German) and continuously makes fun of any explanation I'm trying to give on why a specific German term would be used in a certain context. On the other hand there are people like me, who moved to Norway for about a year and frequently felt like shit that I didn't make a proper attempt to learn its official language (started a course there next to my study, but didn't finish it). I was amazed that every Norwegian I encountered was able to speak English on a very high level. Me not learning the official language, but still trying to achieve some kind of future there, really made me feel foreign and my failed attempt to learn that nations official language remained a lasting feeling of lost time. I would never consider to complain that some documents aren't available in English.




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