This illustration of French and Creole language erosion in Louisiana can be compared to coastal erosion.

With no trans-contextual maintenance of the language(s) or development of applicable uses, the “new francophones” who will emerge from French immersion school environments will have nothing to “anchor” them in their new linguistic identity.

They thus risk metaphorically flowing off the end of the continental shelf like so much alluvial material lost in the anglophone sea…