It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
I couldn't get along with the French.
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