Politics

[jbor]

on 18/2/03 12:38 AM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

>> The French Academy have tried to compete with English by moving to eliminate
>> those Anglicisms which have crept into the French language, and some
>> provinces apparently do not allow parents to christen their children with
>> non-"French" names.
> 
> That's excellent. I'd hate to think of the French dying out.

No, that isn't the issue. The French would like their language to be able to
compete again with English on the international stage. Thirty or forty years
ago it appeared much more likely that French, not English, would become the
"global" language. But with the advent of new technologies and media, and
the economic, political and cultural ascendancy of the U.S. in particular,
it is English which has lucked out.

best