More On Barack’s Bilingual Babblings
July 10, 2008 / 11:43 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierBarack’s blabbing wasn’t popular evidently (via Instapundit). And here’s another salient point delivered by James Lileks:
Oh the shame of being embarrassed in front of the Europeans. For some people they are the cool teens, and Americans are the mortifying parents.
It’s the old argument among the betters with well-stamped passports: fie on those foolish grunting hoi polloi who show up in Paris in loud shirts expecting people to speak English and calling everyone Pierre. In the context of English-as-a-national-tongue laws, it’s an interesting assertion: Apparently it is right to expect people who visit Paris to speak French the day they get there, but it is cultural chauvinism to expect people who want to live and work in America to understand English well enough to navigate a ballot.
Success equals English. Learn it. Snobbism equals French. Learn it if you absolutely must, dahling.
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July 11 2008 / 2:11 pm
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Snobbism equals French. Learn it if you absolutely must, dahling.
Why learn a language that will be going under the halal slaughter knife in another generation or two?