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Languages in the EU (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jennwiththesea@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm about to sound like the ignorant American I am, so I apologize in advance! We're looking at a trip to Germany, and possibly Prague, and we've noticed that a lot of the hotel names are French and a couple hotels that aren't named in French have replied to comments with things like "Bonjour! etc etc" What's up with this? Is French just the most commonly spoken common language, even in Germany and Czechia? (I know that Germany and Czechia have their own languages, of course.) Or is it something else?

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[-] thzihdd@feddit.de 51 points 1 year ago

Maybe the owner is a french company?

I'm Geman and travel a lot. No Bonjours for me ever ๐Ÿ˜‰.

[-] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's a decent theory! Interesting that you haven't seen it as a German person, too.

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