joshedwards.com » Europe http://joshedwards.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Vacations For All of Europe http://joshedwards.com/2010/04/26/vacations-for-all-of-europe/ http://joshedwards.com/2010/04/26/vacations-for-all-of-europe/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:30:54 +0000 Josh http://joshedwards.com/?p=725 Again with the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times: “An Important Human Right.”

Subsidized vacations for citizens over 65, kids between the ages of 18 and 25, and families facing “difficult social, financial or personal” circumstances.

Lucky bastards.

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It just sucks I’m so bad at them.

So instead I can marvel in how different people communicate. I think I mentioned recently how the United Nations has six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).

Well in this New York Times article from Monday about Google’s translating software I saw a fun fact – European Parliament proceedings are translated into 23 languages.

Dang!

I had to google it. We’ve got: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

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