Comments for Free Citations http://fisherwy.wordpress.com Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:51:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on British commentators poke fun at Chirac’s walkout by Patrick EMIN http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/british-commentators-poke-fun-at-chiracs-walkout/#comment-3 Patrick EMIN Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:51:16 +0000 http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/british-commentators-poke-fun-at-chiracs-walkout/#comment-3 France's president Jacques Chirac walked away from the last european council in protest over M.Seilliere talking english. To be precise, Chirac did not walked away from the European Council because M.Seilliere spoke english (Chirac is fluent in english and has certainly no problem with the language), but because M.Seilliere, who started his speech in french, suddendly turned to english because he said "english is the language for business". English is no more the language of business than french is the language of poetry, italian the language of arts or spanish the language of flamenco dancing Any speech can be given in any language; a language is not used according to the content of a speech but according to your audience. In this case, the audience was the european council and as far as I know, the very vast majority of attendants don't have english as their mother tongue. All speeches are translated anyway and english was absolutely not necessary. M. Chirac was right to point out this anomaly, but wrong to walk out, he should have said to the audience "Et maintenant, mesdames et messieurs, we are going to hear M.Seilliere speech". That would have had much more impact... Anyway, the wrong thing to do would have been to do nothing. France’s president Jacques Chirac walked away from the last european council in protest over M.Seilliere talking english.
To be precise, Chirac did not walked away from the European Council because M.Seilliere spoke english (Chirac is fluent in english and has certainly no problem with the language), but because M.Seilliere, who started his speech in french, suddendly turned to english because he said “english is the language for business”.
English is no more the language of business than french is the language of poetry, italian the language of arts or spanish the language of flamenco dancing
Any speech can be given in any language; a language is not used according to the content of a speech but according to your audience. In this case, the audience was the european council and as far as I know, the very vast majority of attendants don’t have english as their mother tongue. All speeches are translated anyway and english was absolutely not necessary.
M. Chirac was right to point out this anomaly, but wrong to walk out, he should have said to the audience “Et maintenant, mesdames et messieurs, we are going to hear M.Seilliere speech”. That would have had much more impact… Anyway, the wrong thing to do would have been to do nothing.

]]> Comment on British commentators poke fun at Chirac’s walkout by carry my name http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/british-commentators-poke-fun-at-chiracs-walkout/#comment-2 carry my name Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:59:16 +0000 http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/british-commentators-poke-fun-at-chiracs-walkout/#comment-2 Whaut ze ell vaus ee zinking? Whaut ze ell vaus ee zinking?

]]> Comment on Outcry rises over Afghan Christian convert by carry my name http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/outcry-rises-over-afghan-christian-convert-2/#comment-1 carry my name Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:44:48 +0000 http://fisherwy.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/outcry-rises-over-afghan-christian-convert-2/#comment-1 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. The Fifth Seal 9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; 10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" 11 And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also. 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for My name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

The Fifth Seal
9 When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; 10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” 11 And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.

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