> France, to give one example, has been much worse than Britain at prescribing French True. > and effectively wiping out many regional languages. Have you an

> France, to give one example, has been much worse than Britain at prescribing French True. > and effectively wiping out many regional languages. Have you any example of this affirmation? While I can cite a bunch a regional language destroyed by the French Republic inside current French borders, I have no idea of what you are referring to concerning former colonies. Native Americans in New France never learnt French and the demise of their languages are due to the English settlers, people in Africa learned French (and still do it) yet retained their own languages, same concerning North-Africa where Berber languages have been in concurrenced by Arabic not French, in Indochina French is not spoken anymore. You affirm something really strong without a bunch of example to back it, that seems to be more French-bashing than anything that really happened. The only exception I can find is in French Polynesia. Also, your description of the Académie Française is really biased too.