Reply #82: When in Rome [View All]

[NV1962]

yada yada.

Here's news: while you're lingering on Jacques Lang's ill-fated drive to keep the French language "pure" and eliminated barbarisms not sanctioned by the Académie, some two decades have gone by - and in the meantime, you can now learn Breton in Brittany again.

France is doing now what's been done in Spain for a quarter of a century: acknowledge that pride in national / cultural identity is not a "threat" to the larger national identity. When the French football team ("soccer" for the locals in the US) won the World Cup, you bet that everybody felt très français for example. It's a relative thing.

More than anything, it's a refreshing invitation tolearn and relax the gluteus maximus. The continuation and sovereignty of the United States of America is not at stake, by learning to deal with a more diverse and multi-cultural society. Honest.