Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that

> Date:         Sat, 15 May 1999 08:50:08 EDT
> From: <Lassailly@...>
> Still, where are the Anglo-Saxons plotting *there* ? (they must be
> plotting somewhere). Anyway let's pretend she doesn't speak French.
> Or with such an apalling accent that you could hardly tell that.
Well, that's a good question. Giving a (Norman) French ruling house,
would the Anjou dialect have survived as a home language of the
English nobility? Does the House of Lords still conduct its business
in 'law French' *there?*

A Parisian would still find the accent appaling, of course.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)