I am amused by the concept of being 'unfaithful' to a language, and even more amused by the fact that this concept seems uniquely French in nature. :)

Heh -- I'm amused at the concept that you're amused about this.

Meanwhile, excuse me as I go correct the atrocious spelling up there: "modeste," "touchante," no space after the apostrophes, "lui." It's a matter of loyalty.

The spelling mistakes were typos, but I thought I copied the spacing after apostrophes faithfully from the book that had the quote in it; is it possible the punctuation conventions have changed in a hundred years?

Entirely possible; the 19th-century folk didn't have to deal with auto-word-wrap.

Hm... given I don't know you, perhaps I should specify that I'm french canadian -- I grew up with faithfulness to the language being stressed.

I don't care about your dyeing your hair, but I'm opposed to your going silent. How selfish it would be to keep all your ideas to yourself.

Well, the kid in the movie doesn't not communicate, he just doesn't speak. He carries a little pad of paper around with him in case he needs to "say" something important.

I loved Little Miss Sunshine. It's not often that a movie satisfies me in so many ways (dialogue, music, wardrobe, casting). The casting of the little girl was especially good.