by Dora Lee | editors: Jessica Nicholas (PhD candidate in French) Zsuzsanna Fagyal (Associate Professor of French) | “Où se trouve la bibliothèque?” [Where is the library ?] “Up the street two blocks, turn to your right, just pass Burger King and you’re right there.” “Je vous ai dit, “Où se trouve la bibliothèque?” [I’m asking: Where is the library?] “And I told you, up two blocks, to your right, right past Burger King. Don’t you understand English?" We don’t often anticipate someone responding to us in a language other than the one we’ve spoken to them in. Even if they’re just telling us that no, they don’t in fact speak our language, they usually manage to muddle through our language well enough to inform us that they just can’t muddle through it any longer. Not so in Ireland, apparently, where muddling through just doesn’t seem to cut it! Irish Language Commissioner Seán Ó Cuirreáin has recently issued a report detailing the rise in com...