"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message

> You want the French language revised?

You revise a law. A language evoluates whatever governement does.
I was talking about the problem of a national education system that
maintains, for 100% of the youth,  a curriculum designed for 20%.
Litterature (most classics and litterature history) fills all the French
language curriculum after junior hishschool, while 80% of the teenagers
would need more practice of writing, reading, understanding, etc, of
contemporean language. I find it sad that there are adults not able to write
"efficiently" an email or a letter, give a phone call properly, to a bank or
a possible employer.
Never having read anything from Proust is not a problem, people can always
buy books and read them when they are older.....if they can read.

>What about the language and culture
> being Anglicized or Americanized?

French is little influenced by English, the loan words that last are not
numerous, and not more numerous than 50 or 100 years ago.
And there is neither "Anglicization" nor "Americanization", but a general
excess of consumerism that can be worrying.
Like in many countries, there are people that give game boys and frozen
pizzas and quiches to their kids instead of taking care of them, etc.

Do Americans know Lucky Luke and Johnny Halliday ? At least Vernon Sullivan
? You've found them in you dictionary of American culture ?

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