freecounterpoint: Quixote Bites Man

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Quixote Bites Man

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...: They argue that the English language has colonised French screens, large and small, infiltrated French music, and is now conquering the French workplace as well, in e-mails or "les e-mails", and on "le web" or "l'internet" and even on "les news".

Can the French ever do something -- anything -- besides bitchin'? Like, maybe, invent the goddam internet? Mais bien sur que non.; 2/08/2007 7:02 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Mais, AI, did Monsieur Alois Goree, child of France, invent the internet [you know, before he became the Tiresias of Eco-Doom and Nobel Candidate extraordinaire??]; 2/08/2007 10:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Why don't these people do something for the common good and burn down a McDonald's "restaurant" instead?; 2/09/2007 3:12 AM
Anonymous said...: Jacques Toubon (former minister of culture) had spearheaded the War on English Language (WOEL) about 10 years back. He found some measure of support among the reactionary farts at the Academie Francaise (a bunch of decrepit nonagenarians whose sole function is to wear powdery wigs & ponder endlessly about what word should and shouldn't be added to the dictionary).
When the Guignols made a puppet after him (dubbed Jack Allgood), he was subjected to public ridicule. The supreme court then proceeded to slam his effort at banning English language from all french business documents (something about freedom of speech had escaped jack).
He is probably resting in a mental institution now.; 2/10/2007 9:24 PM

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