Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)

En réponse à "Karapcik, Mike" <Karapcik@...>:

>
>         Actually, one of the professors here at Moffitt is moving to
> Lions
> France. He's Greek, but he was on the French Debate team in college. He
> said
> that when he was there interviewing, he noticed a revival of sorts in
> regional dialects and languages. He said he heard radio broadcasts in
> Provençal and Brenton for the first time. Perhaps things are changing?
>
Extremely slowly, and only on a local and nearly illegal basis. The official
position of the government on the problem of language diversity in France is
best summed up by the following quote from our former minister of education
(who sometimes had quite good ideas though. Being intelligent doesn't prevent
from saying stupid things): "I prefer teaching English and French to computer
scientists than Corsican and Breton to shepherds"...

Christophe.

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