So you think English is easier to learn than French?

[menthe]

Norman, you have mentioned Anglophone imperialism on another thread but I put it to you that the English language is so difficult that perhaps it doesn't come anywhere near being able to have imperialistic ambitions?

Just take a look at this poem by a Dutch anglophile called Gerard Nolst Trenité:

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my praver.

Pray, console your loving poet,

Make my dress look new, dear, sew it!

 

Plus there are another 104 more lines.....

[anotherbanana]

No, Norman, cultural and linguistic flexibility and adaptability in use which has led to the adoption of English cultures and languages worldwide. ( Please note my plurals)

[NormanH]

12 hours ago, anotherbanana said:

No, Norman, cultural and linguistic flexibility and adaptability in use which has led to the adoption of English cultures and languages worldwide. ( Please note my plurals)

I am not sure that "linguistic flexibility and adaptability in use" are behind the replacement  of  Toussaint  traditions  by Halloween in France. I reckon it is more about commercialism

[Judith]

So do I NormanH!!

[anotherbanana]

And all those bunches of chrysanths. are not commercial, Norman? La Toussaint, the Day of the Dead is an autumn clean up festival of graveyards, not much more, part of a dead or dying Catholic  tradition which replaced an older Autumn festival. It is largely irrelevant these days. And  though I dislike Halloween it is a bit of fun for kids, but yes, very commercial.