“Our only revenge” said a French official “is that the English language is being killed by all these foreigners speaking it so badly.”
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Suneidos the Cred-ible
on March 16, 2008
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He says this in English? And which foreigners? The non-French in France, or was he in an English-speaking country? If the latter, was he including himself amongst 'these foreigners'? If so, I have to say, as a citizen of an English-speaking country, that I don't think he speaks English so badly. Am I wrong? Perhaps my view supports his argument. Is the English language dead already?
For a given value of 'dead', and do you mean yesterday's English, today's or tomorrow's? The language has so many contributing sources and is in such a state of flux [is that an oxymoron?] it's hard to imagine it ever being considered 'dead'.