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French Culture strike backMerde in France is reporting on the televisual gesticulations of our former top Secret Weapon of the French Diplomacy operative, Hubert "Open Wide" Vedrine:
Védrine's most notable accomplishment is the coining of the word 'hyperpower' which he created not so much to describe the United States, but rather to be able to continue calling France a 'superpower'. Yes, the French really are that vain.Not only vain, but also terribly uneducated...
As Jean-François Revel (one of the few French Academician not totally asleep) pointed out in his last book ("The anti-American obsession, its functioning, its causes, its inconsistencies») Hubby Darling wins the Dumb Bunny Award on this one:
Regarding the word "superpower" as too weak and banal, Hubert Védrine, french Foreign Affairs minister in the "allied Left" government choose in 1998 to use the "hyperpower" neologism which, according to him, is stronger and describes better the prevailing US hegemony in the world.So when W . wonders if Hubby Darling's neologism is to be accepted by the French Academy, I'm pretty sure about the position of - at least - one of its members on that issue.
One fails to see why it would be better or stronger, since the Greek prefix "hyper" has exactly the same meaning as the Latin prefix "super".
It's no big surprise the post-68 Left totally ruined the quality of the public (and private) education in my country.
He deserves to be saved.
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