Among my many cold and flu medicines, I am taking some kind of powder dissolved in hot water. “Lemon Hot Drink,” it says on the satchel. It took me a while to figure out that it was produced someplace in Poland. The instructions are in twelve languages, though. But what twelve languages! In alphabetic order: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Russian, and Slovak. I was quite stunned by the list. But where is Polish? Or Slovenian? Or Albanian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian? Or Greek and Turkish, for that matter? What kind of Europe is this? Only then it came to my mind that there were many more tongues missing from the odd list: English, French, Italian, Spanish…