THE HOLIEST OF ALL LANGUAGES

 

Mme Liberté habite maintenant en Amérique du Nord,

mais elle n'a pas oublié son français pour autant...

English is everywhere these days. It is spoken by billions of people, here and there, from Melbourne to Manchester to Minneapolis to Mississauga to Marlborough, and also in the most surprising of places. It is one of the most important languages of the world, of course, in a lot of fields and for a lot of reasons.

ENGLISH is the language of:

• science, business, movies, sports, songs, rock n'roll, novels, westerns, money, arts, science-fiction, philosophy, trade, war, television, the Internet, the Beatles, Agatha Christie, the Queen of England, mystery, panache, romance, fashion, security, communications, technology, all of the  Hobbits, most of the Irish people, marketing, maritime transportation, the Star Trek franchise, the Isle of Man, motherhood, apple pie, civilization, culture, and many other things, all good and true.

But then, French, its old nemesis, is not to be underestimated. Don't forget the French people won the One Hundred Years war, even though they weren't too impressive in 1940. It is, for instance, the main language used by la statue de la liberté, despite her long years of residence in the harbour of New York City. It was also the language of Joan of Arc, la pucelle d'Orélans, eager to boot the Anglos out of the sacred soil of France, with a good kick you know where. But there's more to that idiom than just that accomplishment: there's something almost holy about it. Judge for yourself...

FRENCH is the language of:

• Gaïa

That simple fact proves definitively, once and for all, that French is the most important language of the universe, a tongue whorty of the whole species, whether it is called humankind, mankind, womankind, or whatever.

Gaïa, déesse de la vie...