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Old 24-11-2004, 04:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default English language causes problems for French businesses
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...371665,00.html
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FRANCE’S rearguard struggle against the English language moved to the courts yesterday when technicians at a division of the General Electric company claimed that they were illegally being forced to use English.

The employees at General Electric Medical Systems (GEMS) told the Versailles county court that the multinational company’s policy of using English-only manuals and promoting English in the workplace breached France’s “Toubon” law.

Named after the Minister of Culture of the time and widely ignored since, this 1994 law requires foreign expressions to be translated INTO phpbb_French in the workplace, on commercial products and in advertising.
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