“Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.”
Henri Cole
Touch: Poems
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“Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English. The language was in a state of flux: attempts were made to assert the French language, to keep down the local language, English, and to make the language of the church (Latin) the language of writing.”
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“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
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“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”
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