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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (5862)	3/4/2003 4:07:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12247

Jon, I did civil engineering and we had exactly the same stupid idea. It was thought good that engineers have a reading knowledge of a foreign language. I thought American was okay, but French was considered de rigeur. In the 19th century, France was a big deal. Not as big a deal as England, but certainly a substantial deal. So 100 years later, the dopey educational establishment was still inflicting French on indifferent students who wanted a meal ticket. Even more anachronistically, they inflicted Latin on swarms of adolescents [I refused to take it so suffered worse teachers and teaching which was a problem]. I think they thought the Roman Empire might be reformed and Latin might come back into favour. So far, France has lost their status. Great Britain no longer is great and doesn't have the British Empire to strut around. Rome hasn't had a resurgence. The American Empire is taking over. I will have to give in on colour, favour, fortnight, aluminium, bonnet, boot and humour at some stage. Damn cultural hegemonists. Soon, we won't be able to get a decent scone and nice cup of tea anywhere. Mqurice