French Sues English

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 1 p.m.

French Sues English; by SpecGram Wire Services; From Volume CLIX, Number 2 of Speculative Grammarian, June 2010. \u2014 The Acad\xe9mie Fran\xe7aise filed a lawsuit today at the European Court of Language Slights in Brussels against the English language, claiming 650 million euros in compensation. The suit against the English language describes \u201cthe intentional misappropriation of core elements of French and imitation of its distinctive sound.\u201d The Acad\xe9mie seeks damages and an injunction that, if granted, would prevent English from being spoken until the case has been resolved. (Read by Stephany Dunstan.)