Oiks Welcome!

What is it [about] french and the strange conceit that it needs no translation, in some circles? You don’t see people doing this with german, polish, russian, chinese. A big blob of Chinese wouldn’t be pasted into this blog – why French? Is it a public school thing? There’s a few public schoolboy blogs that do this, in England – not so much abroad in more egalitarian english speaking countries however. I suppose this used to happen with greek and latin in certain academic works. If you can’t read it, why are you reading? You don’t belong here you oik.

Well, of course I wouldn’t slap a “big blog” of Chinese onto the blog. I wouldn’t have a clue what it means.