Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

[John Cowan]

Alain LaBonté  scripsit:

 > Just as
 > an indication, Québec, a 7.5-million-people island of French speakers
 > which is surrounded by an ocean of monolithically English-speaking
 > community of 300 million users of this language public-wise (I mean
 > outside of homes), does not speak English (at least not enough to
 > understand a simple question on the phone and answer it) in a proportion
 > of approximately two thirds.

I suggest that there are ideological reasons for this which do
not apply to the rest of the world, which does not feel their
native languages under such a threat as you describe, and feel
freer to learn other languages as a matter of individual
utility.

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