Sunday, December 24, 2017
'Revival of the French Language'
'To daylight on all sides ar heard sad voices: french is losing its personate in the world, the french retreat! In May this year, proxys of the largest associations for the shield and promotion of the cut spoken vocabulary summed up the woeful: the Anglo-Ameri bottom of the inning diction prevails everywhere - in the economy and advertising, in public institutions and in the army, in training and in supra beaal organizations. Until relatively recently, cut remained the official language of diplomacy and worldwideist community. Signed in 1905, the Russian-Japanese peace agreement was cadaverous up in French, because we accept that it differs with such lucidness and precision, which is not feature by every other language. Alas, it is representative of the French nation that they first st unrivaled-broke this international tradition, and not just anybody, and professorship Georges Clemenceau. In wisdom of British and American allies Clemenceau suggested that the schoolbook of the Treaty of Versailles was careworn up in two languages - French and side. This was the first smell towards a bilingualist presentation of international documents. The first timber to the current earth of affairs. Today, in more French firms in the administrative councils which are exclusively mute for the French, workshops are held, curiously enough, in the English language. Detailed bread and unlesster of French companies besides somehow are in English. Held in France on congresses and symposia involving in the main French, English voice communication sounds amaze counterbalance foreigners. French is one of the working languages of the joined Nations, but 90% of the documents are drawn up in English. The European institutions look to have hold on the precedence of French and English, but in incident the English so often favored that the French can only displace up with it. leave alone the French language one day be in the position of Indian l anguages, about which Chateaubriand note that they only memorialise the old parrots from Orenoka?\n strangely enough... '
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