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Who to decide?
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:41 am
by metal56
Jean-Paul Nerrière, a retired vice president of IBM USA, who is French, says that it is nonnatives who should control things, the way forward. Do you agree with him?
"We are a majority," Nerrière said, "so our way of speaking English should be the official way of speaking English."
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:35 pm
by Lotus
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, sorry. Gee, I hope you're not expecting a serious answer to this.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:46 pm
by lolwhites
"Official" way of speaking English?
Thanks for brightening up my Sunday afternoon, Metal.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:01 pm
by metal56
Lotus wrote:HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, sorry. Gee, I hope you're not expecting a serious answer to this.
I don't wish to standardize the answers, Lotus. All comers welcome.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:54 am
by Lorikeet
Especially funny coming from someone who is French.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:38 am
by Stephen Jones
The French academy can't even control how people speak French.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:34 am
by metal56
Stephen Jones wrote:The French academy can't even control how people speak French.
Tis true. And I know of no situation where the majority controls standards. Normally, the minority creates and imposes such things.