But French is a language perfected in the drawing rooms of pre-empire grandeur, steeped in literature and resounding with the very highest attributes of culture.
Afrikaans is a dialect, honed around the campfire, which is where it belongs, on the other side of course, and redolent of nothing more than a disenfrachised migratory minority, for whom one may feel great sorrow but whose cultural contributions to civilisation have been somewhat muted.
