----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: first try at conlanging
> En réponse à erwan ar skoul <erwan.arskoul@...>:
>
> >
> > Yes, one should write a grammar of the French language as it really
> > works. I
> > wonder how many frenchmen would recognize their language :-)
> >
>
> Probably not many, since most educated people in France are absolutely
unable
> to make the difference between language and orthography. Ask a French man
how
> many vowels there is in French, he'll answer invariably: 5 (a, e, i, o, u)
(or
> 6 if he considers y as a vowel), how to mark plural: "add an s at the end
of
> the word in general". He'll answer to questions about phonology and
grammar by
> orthographic considerations. And guess why I'm mad at the French system of
> education!! :)))
Erm...how DO you mark a plural?