Quote Originally Posted by Tristuskhan View Post
Same thing in Brittany, if I remember well it was a horseshoe (but I'm not 100% sure). The kid who had it at the end of the day had to clean the classroom. The was also a sign telling "it's forbiden to speak breton and to spit on the ground" in the schoolyards. Charming.
Welsh are a great inspiration (and it's the sister tongue, after all). We just wish their music was less confidential!
Lovely. I think the spitting thing might have been in Wales too - maybe the English and the French decided to co-operate!

The Welsh are still quite finnicky about their language. Like Breton there are several quite distinct dialects but one year a Cornish team when to the National Eisteddfod and won! Then it was realised that nobody had quite followed the song, and that it was an old Cornish Lay and not Welsh.

They were Disqualified, which I felt was unfair when I heard the story.

France is also still waiting for her neighbours to enter the modern age by getting rid of their kings. Nothing is full bright or full dark, PFH!
Language policy in France is awful. We have to live with it.
The Queen is there to protect us from the likes of Trump and Sarko - the fact that our Nation requires a sort of "National Granny" to wipe our face and rap our knuckles to make democray work is not lost on me. Then I look at America and Trump, and am grateful.

Well the VIP quarters of the Prison de la Santé in Paris are ongoing modernization, I heard saying.
I find the very concept of a VIP Wing bizarre - I looked it up and see you are not joking.