TeoKajLibroj wrote
Reply to comment by ziq in Macron launches drive to boost French language around world by An_Old_Big_Tree
How is the status quo (where people speak English, also an imperialist language) any better? I can't see why people are rushing to condemn any threat to the current system.
throwaway399201 wrote
As someone from one of those "colonies" I can tell you the answer: French sucks if you want to have a career in STEM where virtually everything is done in English. It's stupid to force us to have the additional burden of learning two languages when we can master a single one (in addition to our mother tongue of course). I'm speaking about STEM because that's what I've been doing, but I'm sure it applies to many other fields.
TeoKajLibroj wrote
Well, as someone from a former English colony, English linguistic imperialism is just as bad. I would love to see the monopoly of English broken.
throwaway399201 wrote
It's bad in a sense, but it's much better than being forced to have to deal with two additional languages instead of just one.
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