Re: Voices

From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html scripsit:

> bingo (i can't believe my eyes a rational anglo-saxon got my indigent,
> stupid, franchouillard play on word - i need do worse :-).
Hmp. Some Anglo-Saxons, at least, have been francophones for centuries,
y'know.

This leads me to the odd asymmetry of "English" and "French" in English.
The nouns are unambiguously the languages, but the adjectives
are used quite differently.

I have no trouble using "French" to refer to any francophone, but
"English" refers only to people or things from England.  (Loosely,
it may be extended to things related to the U.K. as a whole, too.)

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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