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Article #3369Re: English in France
From: Marc Bonnaud
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America) wrote: >cs93fwa@exeter.ac.uk (F.W.Autret) writes in a recent posting (reference <DM3wsy.BEn@exeter.ac.uk>): >> >>Personnally I think it is vital for every european to learn one or two >>languages spoken elsewhere. Everyone ought to speak english: I am French, >>and it is not an impossible thing to do. why re-invent the wheel, I think >>english is already a major international language. >> >Wow! This is a highly unusual attitude for a Frenchman. I hope you know >that your position is not widely held by your countrymen, who would *never* >accept English as the sole official language of commerce & politics in >Europe. > Indeed. If you have looked carefully at his name you will have noticed he already has a "middle name" which shows the high degree of contamination he has been through, if ever he is *actually* French ( he seems to be living on the wrong side of the Manche ). -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Marc Bonnaud page TAM-TAM : http://PersoWeb.francenet.fr/~mbonnaud courrier : mbonnaud@francenet.fr TAM : Toile d'Araign๏ฟฝe Mondiale ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 11578d,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid11578d,public X-Google-Thread: 102dad,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102dad,public X-Google-Thread: 1058af,c7f86f0010ea9240 X-Google-Attributes: gid1058af,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public X-Google-Thread: 102cce,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cce,public X-Google-Thread: fa448,eac043ec93053a21 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa448,public From: Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@francenet.fr> Subject: Re: English in France Date: 1996/02/08 Message-ID: <4fd8h1$k5v@chleuasme.francenet.fr> X-Deja-AN: 138437575 references: <822094788snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk> <DM3wsy.BEn@exeter.ac.uk> <elnaDMFoG1.FJ7@netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: France Net mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.uu.lang.misc,eunet.politics,soc.culture.europe,alt.politics.europe.misc,talk.politics.european-union x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit)