Language for thinking The General Delegation for the French language shall report for the use of French language, but the report, claiming that the ads are clearly expressed in French on products sold in France (at least, right?) , drew the following response:
Thanks for your report, is very interesting.
But I think it misses a very offensive paragraph, the ability of a language to think. The great
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier wrote, following Condillac, we can develop science without improving the language, and vice versa.
It was said that Perec was revising translations of English without knowing English, identifying rickety structures. I think we can say quite accurately that one can correct a duty to science or even a draft scientific article is one reporter, just by reading.
This actually raises the terrible question: If one hears a politician or a journalist (or any other public figure) uttering speech poorly constructed, can we assume he thinks wrong? The physicist François Arago said that clarity is the politeness of those who speak in public, but I am afraid it is much more: the proof of a mind controlled!
Vive the French language to think ... and any appropriate language to talk to his interlocutor: German to talk to Germans, the English speaking world in a vague gibberish, etc..
