Regarding the title of this entry, you may be asking yourself one of many questions. Is this a post about hip hop? Or possibly you picked up on the grammar error in the title. The hip hop what- style? genre? singers? Although it sounds like something one of my students would have written, the title of this post is actually taken from some graffiti I saw on the street right here in France (see picture below). Yes, this graffiti was written in English and it’s not an isolated case. I picked this particular one because of the article error (use of the word ‘the’), but also because it’s a good introduction to a topic which is very current in France: the presence, and predominance of English. Whoever wrote this graffiti was probably influenced by pop culture imported from the US. Foreigners who come to France are often shocked by the amount of English heard and seen in popular culture. French radio and cinema have actually put into place quotas for French films, so the market ...