I’m taking a French class right now in my education program and it’s pissing me off. We spent two hours yesterday going down a list of the prononciations and expressions and vocabulary that make the French here unique and beautiful and how all of them are wrong. Fuck that. It’s not even my language. I have no personal stake in this. But fuck that. You want us to learn to speak standardized French why, so we can shame our students for the way that they speak their language? So we can teach them how to assimilate their voices? Fuck. That. It’s not my fucking place anyway. ‘Common mistakes’ my ass. You know who’s most likely to fail this class? International students. Who have their own wonderful, unique regionalisms that you’d rightly be called racist for including on your common mistakes lists. Doesn’t stop you from taking points off for them though, does it? So they’re just going to get less personalized help passing you elitist fucking tests. And then you whine about how French results are going down. How no one wants to speak it. Ever consider that being constantly held to standards of standardization meant to exclude you might make you less inclined to speak your language? I wonder how the fuck you think this is fixing that problem. But it isn’t my language.
Fuck l’académie française. Fuck this glottophobic course.
