[Foundation-l] Texts deleted on French Wikisource

Tim Landscheidt tim at tim-landscheidt.de
Wed Jun 2 15:05:49 UTC 2010


Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> The notion that French is spoken only in France is factually wrong.
> Consequently the claim that French literature targets the French public is
> arguably wrong as well. Either French is a world language or it is only
> spoken by the French public, you cannot have it both ways.

> Not only in my opinion is French a world language.
> [...]

Yann's (English) quote of Gallimard's claim doesn't say any-
where that French literature targets the French public /ex-
clusively/.

Tim




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