The new whine from sour grapes...

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The new whine from sour grapes
by Suzanne Fields

Pity the French, who don't care what you do as long as you pronounce it correctly. Their language, eloquent in nuance and precision and once the lingua franca of international diplomacy, has been swept away by the tide of English flooding the workplace, expanding in chancelleries and foreign offices the world over.

The rest of the story: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/fields1.asp

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This isn't new. The French want to preserve their language. I remember my French teacher discussing this in the 1980s.