Why is the French language soo widely used??

[squealpiggy]

I'm sure it's a case of semantics, but I always thought early modern era was defined from the 1500's onward - around the Renaissance. Wikipedia, and other sources seem to agree. So I guess I'm right.

But I lol'd at the old school wrestling analogies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_period

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_Europe

http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson4/lesson4.php?s=0

http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/eme/

Fair enough. Now I feel dumber than the Nasty Boys when they lost the Tag Team championship to the Road Warriors.

[Rostov Papa]

Fair enough. Now I feel dumber than the Nasty Boys when they lost the Tag Team championship to the Road Warriors.

Still towards the end of that period, you and Rory are right in that France took over as the super power in charge (behind England and Her Majesty's Empire of course!) It was only the beginning where Spain was large and in charge - and we can see their impact by essentially colonizing all of Central and South America (only Brazil speaks Portuguese, other than that, pretty much from Mexico, through Panama, down to Argentina, and Chile, Spanish is spoken).

Montevideo, Uruguay could easily be confused for a Spanish city... People don't like to think of these countries as "European" because they are not Anglo-Saxon like US, and Canada, but Argentina, Chile, Uruguay all had immigration history identical to USA, except different European countries.

Haha oh man that was truly the golden age of wrestling - IMO, the ONLY age!

Late 80's through mid/late-ish 90's (around 1998) was the peak IMO - both WCW and WWF were putting on great entertainment.


What about The Bushwhackers losing to The Headshrinkers?

[Box-Office]

Why French crossing soo many borders? France has more influence on its neighbours than vice versa, in the age we live right now which is not napoleons or the French empires time, what use do these countries have for French language, why don't they just ditch the language all together, use their own languages and English as a second language.

It's NOT crossing borders in Europe. Being a Frenchman doesn't necessarily equate to being from the French Republic. Walloons (French Belgians) and Swiss French are also "ethnic" French. You can say the same about German, where people of Germany, Austria and Swiss Germans (60% ish of Switzerland) are same ethnic group regardless of which State they reside in.