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2005-07-14 Europe

French Language In Japanese Courts (defending the honor of the "failed language")

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Posted by GhostofBonzo 2005-07-14 09:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Might be amusing to start a campaign to have French moved to the "Dead Languages" department of US universities.

Posted by Omuting Theath5524 2005-07-14 13:22|| 2005-07-14 13:22|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, while Ishihara seems to be a class-A nativist asshole, his reasons for trashing French as a language are honestly amusing. But no Japanese speaker has basis to make fun of another language for eccentric and inefficient counting methods, given the multiple contradictory numbering schemes present in that language.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-07-14 14:36|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-07-14 14:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I was taken by the resort to litigation and the claims that economic livelyhood is "hindered." Would seem they learned a little bit of the less admirable parts of French culture as well as the language. As to Ishihara, I think he's scum and deserving of many bad things. That has a little bit to do with my grandfather dying at Saipan.

Posted by GhostofBonzo 2005-07-14 16:01|| 2005-07-14 16:01|| Front Page Top

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