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The Final Brick in "Le Wall"
It looks like official France is finally admitting French is no longer the, well, lingua franca of the developed world. Only took them, what, a few hundred years to get around to it?
WHAAAAT!!?!
And the next thing you'll be telling me Louis XIV and Napoleon are DEAD!!
As France tries desparately to remain relevent, you mean...
Posted by: ronaprhys on September 3, 2008 10:44 AMI spent the winter of 1986-7 as a visiting professor at the Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay. There were posters all over the campus advertising English classes. The headline was "Do You Speak Science?"
Science is a leading indicator.