marciapoore 's review for:

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoît Nadeau
2.0

I thought the book would be more about the culture -small c- but it was a lot about their political structure, government, and civil issues. Two sentences that were memorable and appreciated were: "The French have an irrepressible habit of correcting language use, and they do so indiscriminately. " The other was: "The real difference [between English and French] is that, unlike the French, English speakers tolerate poor use of language." I wish we were more like the French in this regard because spoken English in America today is painfully lacking in good grammar.