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Referred to more than 30 times in the Lisbon Treaty, â??subsidiarityâ? has been included in the new Google Dictionary but is still â??not a wordâ? in Gmailâ?¦or in Microsoft Word.
The Assembly of European Regions (AER), the largest organisation of regional authorities in wider Europe, has welcomed Google Dictionaryâ??s recognition of â??subsidiarityâ?, a word mentioned more than 30 times in the European Unionâ??s Lisbon Treaty.
Launched last week, Googleâ??s online dictionary provides several definitions of the word, most of them taken from other sites such as Wikipedia, and offers translations of the word in several languages. Subsidiarity is â??the principle that decisions should be taken as closely as possible to the citizenâ?.
â??This is welcome news, but itâ??s not enough,â? says Richard Medic, AERâ??s spokesman and leader of â??Subsidiarity is a wordâ?, a movement demanding recognition of the word in dictionaries and spell-check applications worldwide. â??For a start, some of the definitions Googleâ??s English dictionary has collected are simply wrong, and that adds to the confusion propagated by other shoddy online dictionariesâ?. The popular website Dictionary.com, for example, defines subsidiarity simply as â??of secondary importanceâ?.
Googleâ??s â??Gmailâ? service, says AERâ??s â??Subsidiarity Manâ?, presents a second problem. Typing the word â??subsidiarityâ? in Gmail attracts a red correction line, suggesting that the word has been misspelt or does not exist.
â??How can Googleâ??s Gmail not recognise a word that its dictionary and translation sites do? Spell-check applications have a huge influence on the way we use language. So when people type â??subsidiarityâ? in Gmail and are confronted with a red correction line, one of two things usually happen: they either accept the suggested alternative (in this case, â??subsidiarilyâ?? or â??subsidiaryâ??) or avoid using the word altogether. That does not bode well for citizensâ?? understanding of such a core European value.â?
The linguistic paradoxes within Googleâ??s online services reflect a similar phenomenon in the Word application of its corporate competitor, Microsoft. While the French and German versions of MS Word do recognise â??subsidiarityâ?, the Italian and English versions still do not. And yet the red correction line in the English version is contradicted by the MS Word Thesaurus application, which does list the word.
â??All this reflects the utter confusion among ordinary Europeans when it comes to the â??s-wordâ??. If weâ??re going to take the Lisbon Treaty seriously then we have to take the principle of subsidiarity seriously. Securing recognition of the word and consistency of its definition across all dictionaries, spell-checkers and languages is the only way that citizens can start to recognise and understand the word â?? and citizensâ?? buy-in is the first step to properly implementing the subsidiarity provisions of the Lisbon Treaty.â?
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Launched in May 2008, AERâ??s â??Subsidiarity is a wordâ? movement is demanding recognition of the word in dictionaries, spell-check applications and languages worldwide. Dozens of dictionaries have recognised the word in response to AERâ??s open letters of demand, while the movement continues to gather â??subsidiarity supportersâ? via Facebook, Twitter and the YouTube publicity stunts of the movementâ??s leader, â??Subsidiarity Manâ?.
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