They can’t count:
French teachers in Japan yesterday launched a legal action against the governor of Tokyo after he called French a “failed language”.
In a suit filed at the Tokyo District Court, the 21 complainants, many of whom run language schools or teach French, said Shintaro Ishihara’s remarks had disgraced them.
According to the suit, Mr Ishihara said last October: “It is no surprise that French is disqualified as an international language because French is a language which cannot count numbers.”
But they know how to sue:
[A] group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of “an act of unfair and parasitical competition”.
The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.
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