DRUDGE has this today.
Speaking at a French cultural center in Hanoi ahead of Friday’s opening of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France was right to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.
I wonder if he spoke in French or Vietnamese.
En francais!
La langue de haute culture et moralite, n’est pas?
Comment by Alex — October 8, 2004 @ 10:16 am
Oui, oui!
Comment by Bunker — October 8, 2004 @ 10:35 am
What’s the point here? We should hate the Vietnamese? The French are vile for not hating the Vietnamese? Please tell me the point so that I can belong to your all-knowing little club…
Comment by Karlo — October 8, 2004 @ 12:09 pm
Pretty simple…If linguistic diversity is important to him, I’m just curious if he made the effort to speak Vietnamese.
Jumping to conclusions?
Comment by Bunker — October 8, 2004 @ 12:17 pm
It’s pretty funny to hear a frenchman talk about linguistic diversity when the French quite literally have a language police to prevent the importation of foreign words (and therefore the evolution) into their language.
Comment by Samantha — October 8, 2004 @ 2:37 pm
And besides, if all of the countries of the world were democracies, they’d have no one left to exploit, as they did Viet Nam & the Iraqi people, to name just a couple of examples.
Comment by DagneyT — October 8, 2004 @ 3:38 pm