Weakening our language an act of vandalism

CONTRARY to the waggish boast, the banning or marginalisation of a language does not lead to increased use of that language.

In the modern welfare state where a language is excluded from official business and when state services are only available in another language, the excluded language is abandoned in favour of the language of power.

Even world languages, when so excluded, are not immune to fatal decline — eg Channel Island French, Dutch in northeastern France, or German in Alsace.