Bill Bryson, in The Mother Tongue, opines that it is "a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world."
(As quoted by Howeard Richler in The Bawdy Language, which I'm currently reading.)
lundi 16 août 2010
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