CSI: Quebec -- Crack French police unit still pursues English-speaking lawbreakers

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri May 25 14:03:37 UTC 2007


At 5/24/2007 04:57 PM, Wilson wrote:
>All endangered languages should be so fortunate. Normally, only the
>"national" language has such police powers, as is or has been the case
>in France, Spain, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, etc. Minority
>languages are fortunate to be merely left alone as opposed to being
>actively stamped out.

I'm pleased to read that the French language is endangered.

Joel

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