Re: phonology of borrowed words

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
Florian Rivoal <florian@...>:
>
> >
> > But when does this reputation come from?
>
> I wish I knew...
>
>  Its fame is impressive, world
> > wide (exept in england maybe, where we can be
> frogs before being
> > romantic),
>
> Actually, even there (why do you think the
> expressions French way, French
> letter, etc... even exist?).
>
>  but it is certainly not cause by nowdays french
> people.
>
> Except me ;))) . But I've not been outside France
> for long enough to cause such
> a reputation ;))) .
>
>  So in
> > what time were we so good?
> >
>
> Probably it's rather the others who were so bad at
> the first place ;)))) .
>
well, the society described in les liaisons
dangereuses is certainly pretty licentious, and i
presume it's not _too_ far from the reality of the
day. so maybe the reputation has some of its origins
there

then there's the romantic poetry. is it the  chanson
de roland or something ? maybe that has something to
do with it. certainly the mythology of post-conquest
england is more romantic than that of pre-

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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