before beginning
I would just like to remind you
of something which seems obvious
that is to say that I will give my
talk in English but
as English is not my mother tongue something
relevant will certainly be lost
What do I say that?
but what I would like to
underline is that today
general domination of English in
conferences
universities and other places
of that kind should not be considered 
so innocent or elans de soi 
The common place here
is that English is used as a kind
of lingua franca as Latin was used
in Europe in the
15th, 16th and 17th century
The analogy is misleading because Latin
did not belong to any particular
country. It was not spoken to
by any particular country while
English as you know is proper, that is to say, 
to a couple of nations.
I think 
we should reflect on that
 
