The multilingual deputy prime minister spoke in German.
If you spent your day endlessly scrolling through 1.3 billion soul-deadening hen party photo uploads and infinite multilingual variations of "U OK hun?", you'd want to run as far away from people as you could too.
In multilingual India, Tamil speakers, long wary of the dominance of Hindi, purged their language of non-Tamil borrowings and instituted strict language requirements in public schools in Tamil Nadu.
Tim Doner, an American teenage polyglot (see The Economist's multilingual video interview with him here) is much the same.
And though the multilingual Mr Clegg is making the party yet more internationalist than it was, his disastrous decision to debate against Nigel Farage of the anti-EU UK Independence Party has shown the limits to this.
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Australia, New Zealand and countries in Central and South America are also demanding the return of sensitive art work from dealers and auction houses directly.In this section Love in the time of killing Man of the moment The measure of man Masks and magic Multilingual Elephantasia ReprintsOther areas of tribal art are more resilient.
These language proposals may have been far too ambitious even for a country that needed such a lavishly multilingual policy, which Zimbabwe does not.
It was a rare moment in which the tough-talking Texan looked more multilateral than the multilingual, Swiss-educated senator.History has shown that many people remember presidential debates more for body language and one-liners than for carefully crafted policy positions.
Mr Vasquez says there is an urgent need for relatively simple things, such as multilingual maps, guides and websites.
In the global higher-education market, for example, Estonia boasts dozens of institutions (admittedly, of varying quality) offering competitively priced, multilingual courses.
