Rearguard Action

Read a funny, sad article about how the French keep trying to stave off the infiltration of English terms into their language. You'll find it here in The Los Angeles Times.

I think it is great that we don't do this in English. We absorb words from other languages on a regular basis without any heartburn.

To the extent that nations can be said to have, or not have, self confidence, the Anglosphere has it and the Francosphere doesn't. The reasons for this are historical and geopolitical.