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Look Who's Come Crawling Back

When debating bar trip locations, we (the three of us in question) universally agreed to skip Paris because the lone francophone had already been, and the rest of us were not eager to put up with haughty, arrogant snobbery for using English. Actually, the reluctance of the French to embrace English as the new lingua franca (!) has bothered me for quite some time. This is why French tourists received the worst marks in a recent survey (reluctance to speak English overseas and no tipping).

Well when the tourist economy (that the French seem to forget is essential) collapses, their mood changes. This story brought a smile to my face--and reminded me of the wonderful English signs in Barcelona.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).