According to an AP story, Tokyo's governor is being sued for insulting the French. He is quoted as saying, "French is a failed international language because it cannot be used to count numbers."
The head of a French language school in Tokyo had this: "It's natural for different languages to have different names for numbers and different ways of counting them, so it's unacceptable for him to insult French in this way."
The lawsuit was brought by teachers and translators against Gov. Shintaro Ishihara.
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