It is a shame some people still think they are in the middle ages... and still mention the old English/French rivalry...
It is time mentalities evolve! Remembering Nelson and Napoleon is a bit obsolete.... it would be a bit like remembering the Germans or the Japanese for WW2... This is the past, it is time to move on!
Oh, and by the way, I think that, here in the UK, we forget that if "AMERICAN" English is the international language nowadays, it is obviously thanks to the Americans (basically, after WW2), not thanks to ourselves.... worth considering....
we are not as important as we like to think...
PS: The fact that the French and Belgian posters write in the forum in English actually shows us they try to communicate with other people in another language, which some of us, in the UK, do not seem to do...
How many times people said "What is the point in learning a foreign language, everybody in the world speaks English"....?
(Regards to all of you in the forum who love languages, communication, people, different cultures and are broad minded
and to Lucifer who's got it right
