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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

And what? I hate the Fr*nch language in Fr*nce, Canada and Switzerland too. All the frog-eating sounds and useless silent letters aside, the reason I hate its place in NATO especially is because the Fr*nch have requested special treatment despite being surrender-prone traitors who whined and almost left. Unlike Canada and Switzerland, NATO does not have a Fr*nch-speaking population significant enough to warrant special treatment. They are absolutely capable of understanding "NATO" and "London" like everyone else, they only request "OTAN" and "Londres" underneath because they're whiny bitches. You might as well give it to every official language of a NATO country, which is what I did in this graphic I made of a "fair" NATO logo where everyone gets to be equally entitled as the Fr*nch:

Extended NATO logo. There is still just one compass but the light/dark blue checkerboard pattern continues for 22 rows, and instead of NATO and OTAN, the following is written in the right half: ОСАД, SAA, NATO, ONAV, ΟΒΑΣ, OTAN, PALO, PAPL, ÉASzSz, AB, ONAT, ŠASO, ZALO, OSAS, NAVO, OTPA, DAB, OSAZ, SAPO, OTAV, NAFO, KAAÖ. See table below for list of languages and what the acronyms stand for.

Acronym Title Language/Country
ОСАД Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор mk Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA Severoatlantická aliance cs Czech 🇨🇿
NATO Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation da Danish 🇩🇰
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon no Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου el Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte es Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord fr Fr*nch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord it Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte pt Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord ro Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon et Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto fi Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASzSz Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete hu Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB Atlantshafsbandalagið is Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija lv Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma me Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma sh Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego pl Polish 🇵🇱
DAB Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu se North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija sl Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü tr Turkish 🇹🇷

Do you get it now how ridiculous pushing multiple languages in the front can get? I'm all for acceptance of race and culture but huge multinational organizations should either pick one language or bear the difficulty of using all of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh sorry, I thought we were having an adult conversation without insulting countries. Sorry you hate the French. You must be full of joy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

whined and almost left

This is called "havinge le backbone" in France, you should try it.

French is an international language, and also, is the language of international jurisprudence, which more that warrants it's use as a OTAN official language.