Another day, another murder committed!!!
At this rate, no language will survive. Each and everyone'll be as dead as Latin. Just a couple of weeks ago, right here on SI, a man from Texas attempted to teach others how to pernellse Message 10092290 , thereby murdered English. Today, French is in intensive care in Nevada.
Re: The opening of Paris, the $785 million hotel-casino that clones the classy city of lights in Las Vegas
from the NYT:
It's the American way, really. If you don't have it, buy it. Think of William Randolph Hearst, shipping boatloads of Renaissance and Baroque artifacts to San Simeon.
We can recreate France along our own fantasy lines, without its bad plumbing and snooty airs.
Everyone -- from the beefy trainer in the gym to the guy in a black beret vacuuming the halls -- has been trained to speak a soupçon of French.
"Bone jer, come on tally view?" sing-songs the maid, with a big grin. "That means 'How are you?' "
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