2012 Olympic Games official language is...

[Aperitif]

Fantastic! This will give everyone the chance to experience Francophilia. A few posters here and there dans une autre langue etc...plenty of aides memoires to help the BBC et al, (no, that's not an Arabic channel, silly ) convey the European message.
Bring it on.
Here is the news.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Excellent! I'm going to take it a stage further, for the duartion of the games I shall do the following:

Not wash
Smell of garlic
Sleep for three hours after lunch
Be rude
Smoke filterless cigarettes
Rip the toilets out of the house
Eat horses
Surrender

Think that covers it...

 

[Kestevan]

In the spirit of 3BM I shall be on strike

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Forgot a couple...

Listen to Edith Piaf records and pretend I like her vocal 'style'
Spray the town hall with cow shoot

 

[XmisterIS]

Quatsch! Sie sollen die Olympischenspiele auf Deutsch tun! Dann koennte ich meine Deutsche sprache ein Bisschen besser machen. Schade! Ich habe keine Lust, franzoesisch zu lernen.

 

[Archie_tect]

Possibly my French graduate son could finally get a job actually using the skills he's learned...

 

[yello]

Sleep for three hours after lunch

Some manage to sleep during lunch as well.

Bloody odd choice imho. On sports tele here, you'll hear a good number of interviews conducted in English (dubbed back into French) even where neither the interviewer's nor the interviewee's mother tongue is English. I wonder what the reality will be? Still, I guess we've got to say that, in name at least, the official language will be French!

 

[asterix]

Fantastic! This will give everyone the chance to experience Francophilobia.

There! FTFY.

 

[snorri]

Think that covers it...

Not quite.
You will be expected to take your place in the local on-street bonfire committee.

 

[sheddy]

and how will the French cope with eating the official food - McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Cadburys ?

 

[Fnaar]

Why don't the French simply let their language die? They know, deep down, that we have won

 

[yello]

Personal opinion? It is dying. A slow and lingering death but dying none the less.

 

[Aperitif]

[media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzolOc5VxL0[/media]

 

[JamesAC]

Read down he page. It gets scarier.

I live a couple of miles form the Olympic site, and in consequence I won't be able to wear my Burger King or Pepsi tee shirts in the street. If I do, Sponsorship Protection Police will rush up and tear the clothes off my body.

H'mm.

 

[yello]

Read down he page. It gets scarier.

I did, and you're right. I thought of (football) team shirts most of which has some company name or logo on them.

I vaguely recall people having to remove shirts, or leave bottles outside (because they were Pepsi not Coke - or vice versa) for reasons of event sponsorship... that was cricket wasn't it??