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Francophones must face the fact that English is the language of global commerce MICHEL KELLY-GAGNON, Freelance Published:Â 46 minutes ago A scientist from Denmark meets with government officials in China, and they converse in English. A conference of Eastern European and Turkish business people is conducted in English. The same at a meeting of Asian environmental activists in Tokyo. The participants in these events were not born into the language of Shakespeare. They learned it from necessity, having acknowledged it as the linguistic currency of the global village. This is not a new story but one with ever-increasing momentum, and it's leaving too many young French-speaking Quebecers in the "penalty box," as a friend of mine says. Here's the sad irony: In Quebec's educational system it seems that the world's current lingua... [read full story]
