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La Franco Phony – Why the French Won’t Speak English

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

What is it with the French and their fear of the English language? Every couple of years or so there is an ugly backlash against l’anglophonie that crops up like a nasty patch of herpes simplex, and everyone starts scratching at it. Official proclamations are made about how they must protect themselves against the insidious [...]