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    Default Re: the French Study topic, help me learn french again

    actually i prefer to speak to people in french sometimes, it is so much more eloquent then english, plus i hate the english speaking world saying english is the world language, and acting like its the only important language in the world, and that everyone should speak it.
    this is regardless of the fact that the majority of people in the world do not speak english.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dessa14
    actually i prefer to speak to people in french sometimes, it is so much more eloquent then english, plus i hate the english speaking world saying english is the world language, and acting like its the only important language in the world, and that everyone should speak it.
    this is regardless of the fact that the majority of people in the world do not speak english.
    thanks,
    dessa
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    Default Re: the French Study topic, help me learn french again

    there is only a couple of hundred million in the USA.
    there may be 1.3/1.5 billion people speaking english in the world, now there is 7 billion people in the world, bit shy of a majority.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dessa14
    there is only a couple of hundred million in the USA.
    there may be 1.3/1.5 billion people speaking english in the world, now there is 7 billion people in the world, bit shy of a majority.
    It's good to have English regarded as the transnational language of the future. Maybe one day everybody will speak English as their first language. It is the lingua franca of the world in the same way French used to be the lingua franca of European society until the end of the nineteenth century, particularly of the aristocratic elite in politics, diplomacy and the arts. Tough on the French, they should have conquered the American colonies and things would look better for them. I bet our American friends would have banned British fries by now... Allons enfants... Good luck with your studies, Dessa14.
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    Default Re: the French Study topic, help me learn french again

    Sorry I'm taking German.
    Next Semmester I'm going to rally my German 2 class and invade the French class!
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    Default Re: the French Study topic, help me learn french again

    adrian it's a thought i personally dread, the whole world speaking english!, but that won't happen, because the commonwealth will always speak proper english and the americans will always speak their dumbed down version of english.
    for gods sake who takes the u out of all those words and swaps the r's and e's around.
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    Well, the u's stand no purpose, though half the time I write them in anyway.
    And if you think about it, er sounds more like rrrrr than re does. e sound first. re would more or less be reee like reunited.
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