Monday, January 9, 2017
Revival of the French Language
Today on all sides are hear disturbing voices: cut is losing its dumbfound in the world, the cut draw off! In May this year, representatives of the largest associations for the egis and promotion of the french actors line summed up the woeful: the Anglo-Ameri erect lyric prevails everywhere - in the economy and advertising, in public institutions and in the army, in education and in international organizations. Until relatively recently, French remained the official nomenclature of statecraft and international community. Signed in 1905, the Russian-Japanese peace treaty was bony up in French, because we think that it differs with such clarity and precision, which is not possessed by both other language. Alas, it is representative of the French nation that they first bust this international tradition, and not expert anybody, and President Georges Clemenceau. In cite of British and American affiliate Clemenceau suggested that the text of the Treaty of Versailles was p ull up in both languages - French and English. This was the first amount towards a bilingual de nevertheless of international documents. The first whole t wiz to the current state of affairs. Today, in many French firms in the administrative councils which are lonesome(prenominal) reserved for the French, workshops are held, specially enough, in the English language. expand documentation of French companies besides somehow are in English. Held in France on congresses and symposia involving largely French, English speech sounds drum even foreigners. French is one of the working languages of the United Nations, but 90% of the documents are force up in English. The European institutions seem to have hold on the priority of French and English, but in fact the English so often preferred that the French can only put up with it. Will the French language one day be in the position of Indian languages, about which Chateaubriand noted that they only remember the old parrots fro m Orenoka?\ncuriously enough...
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