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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6448 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes  Studies: German | Message 1 of 40 19 January 2008 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||
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News to me
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| Hollow Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States luelinks.netRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6540 days ago 179 posts - 186 votes Speaks: French*, English*, SpanishB2 Studies: Korean | Message 2 of 40 19 January 2008 at 10:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Whenever I hear something like this, the 'French' in me (I'm not French though) gets a little of that 'francophonie' pride hurt. And then I feel bad for caring so much.
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| Frisco Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6857 days ago 380 posts - 398 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Italian, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 3 of 40 20 January 2008 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Now Anglophone countries can return the favor and add Malagasy as an official language. :)
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 40 20 January 2008 at 2:17am | IP Logged | ||
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 40 20 January 2008 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I spent three days in an 'eco resort' at the East coast where the owners came from outside Madagascar (I have forgotten which country) and there I spoke English most of the time. Apart from that I didn't hear a word of English from I came until I left during my visit in 2005. So Madagascar has not left la Francophonie yet.
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6317 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 7 of 40 21 January 2008 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Guess it was about time. Now what about Greenland...
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| BelgoHead Senior Member Belgium Joined 6304 days ago 120 posts - 119 votes Studies: French, English* Studies: Esperanto | Message 8 of 40 22 January 2008 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I think this is to bad actually. This is just onother example of globalization(in a bad way). but i can understand why madagascar would want to do such a thing, the motives are quite obvious as stated in the article but at what cost will it come to madagascars culture?
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