Bad Slogan
I just discovered that the European Commission released a press release in 2005 saying:
Under the watchword: “The more languages you know, the more of a person you are,” the European Commission reaffirms its own commitment to multilingualism in adopting today its first ever Communication on this issue.
Probably not a good slogan, eh? But if I learn another language, that must make me twice the man I used to be, which could be quite exciting! But in all fairness the French version is « Plus tu connais de langues, plus tu es humain », which sounds perfectly fine. This is probably a case of a French document poorly (ie directly) translated into English. Oh well. The EU translators are normally better… maybe this was one of the documents an outside contractor did. (Can you tell that I’ve been studying the EU’s language practices a lot recently?)