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on 2/17/03 5:45 PM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 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
> 
Or the French blew it.

Their arrogance was their downfall. And now we have Dubya.