Favorite news story of the day
Jul. 23rd, 2008 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreThe BBC had a piece about the dominance of Senegal in Francophone Scrabble.
It's interesting because:
1) French is a second language for many Senegalese. (Wolof is the primary language.)
and
2) Senegal's literacy rate is only about 40%.
I would do terribly in Scrabble en francais, given that I had to ask somebody today what the plural of demarche is.
It's interesting because:
1) French is a second language for many Senegalese. (Wolof is the primary language.)
and
2) Senegal's literacy rate is only about 40%.
I would do terribly in Scrabble en francais, given that I had to ask somebody today what the plural of demarche is.
