The right language 2 --- (2) a colleague in the Swiss Foreign Ministry telling me in 2000 that Embassies were directed to use only Swiss official languages in their formal office communications. Not English, this meant, and my friend told me that this was not practical as many UN documents were only available in English and anyway there are Swiss officials who often used English to communicate with each other as they were better in English than in the "home" languages of even some others in their own office.

Source author: Christopher Lamb christopher.lamb17@gmail.com