Pour Quelques Minutes de Plus de Merde Sur RTCI....

After some almost three decades of loyal services in the promotion of the Shakespeare's language in Tunisia, the English Language Program on RTCI was rewarded by seeing its broadcast window reduced from 1 daily hour to just 30 minutes. Even worse, the program which is a live program saw its airing time change from 2-3 pm to 8-8.30 pm!

Now I'm not gonna try to defend the English language and uselessly remind my readers of some well established facts like this language being THE business and global communication language (the pie chart shows the web pages percentage by language, Source VeriSign) nor will I put it better than Tarek did in his post on this matter.

I'm not gonna attack the Elite "a la francaise", people who daily enjoy reading La Presse , who congratulated themselves during the visit of that little man from Hungary and who goes by the title of the President of the French Republic, that so-called Elite who boasts its achievements every now and then (like the infrastructure they made and which was drowned in the latest floods), that very same Elite who never misses an opportunity to remind us of the glorious past of France and its enlightenment era with all the fuss about the values and ethics of the French Republic. Thank you, we've been tasting those values for 75 years and we had enough of them.

English IS the default language for business, technology, academic papers, international agreements to name but a few. And it will probably keep that place long after the US will lose its superpower status in the international arena. If you're into the Haute Couture and the Cuisine Fine then you should probably be that proud of being so proficient in French because that's what the French are really good for right now: clothes and food.



Ever Heard about that saying: the blind leading the blind? Guess What! a country from the third world is anchoring itself to a country that can barely fund its research, where government is still subsidizing heavily almost everything and that happens to have a language that only excels by taking the bottom of charts every time the topic has to do with emerging or cutting-edge technology or even the number of people speaking that or that language.

It's just despicable. I'm not blogging in French anymore...