Language is the only truly democratic system we have, despite the best efforts of e.g. Academie Française the language develops as the speakers want it to, on average.
This legislation seems symbolic at best, and like a nonstarter at worst. And I dobt think it makes anyone’s life better…
Yeah, think it’s quite silly that the EU is wasting time on this, but here we are.
In the end it’s more about labeling than language anyway. No one is banned from calling anything they want to a “burger”. You can’t just put it in the label when you want to sell it, and I think that is fair enough.
I don’t know man, for me ‘burger’ also refers to the shape. Fry up a lovely mushroom or whatever and add it instead of the meat and I would call it a burger still.
Language is the only truly democratic system we have, despite the best efforts of e.g. Academie Française the language develops as the speakers want it to, on average.
This legislation seems symbolic at best, and like a nonstarter at worst. And I dobt think it makes anyone’s life better…
Yeah, think it’s quite silly that the EU is wasting time on this, but here we are.
In the end it’s more about labeling than language anyway. No one is banned from calling anything they want to a “burger”. You can’t just put it in the label when you want to sell it, and I think that is fair enough.
I don’t know man, for me ‘burger’ also refers to the shape. Fry up a lovely mushroom or whatever and add it instead of the meat and I would call it a burger still.