En réponse à Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...>:
> <<<
> aherm, maybe we shouldn't flame each other for such trivia.
> Christian (not "Christiane", apparently :-) just reports how the
> Acasenile would
> dream people to pronounce french final <et> and Christophe reports how
> 99.99% of
> the french metropolitans actually pronounce it.
So Christian, 99.99% is enough to make you admit that I was right this time,
whatever your dictionaries say?
one day--i was in my
> 5--my
> teacher told us to pronounce it /E/ but when i proudly reported so to my
> mother
> on the threshold back from school at 6 pm (french school is a kid's
> nightmare)
> she just replied it's dumb and pretentious please don't speak like that
> at home
> thank you very much go wash your hands now. same with |lait| : it's
> supposed to
> be /lE/ but everybody says /le/.
Unlike me in this case. Only |-et| I pronounce [e]. |ai| I just always
pronounce [E], whatever its position, and I've never heard it considered
pretentious. I've rather heard the pronunciation [le] for |lait| considered
dumb.
a majority of people including me (and
> 100% of
> people south to the Loire river) pronounce almost all final /E/ as /e/
> although
> it's plain wrong according to the Acadebile: they gave everybody bad
> grades and
> no "bon point" but it's still not enough. only one punishment would
> work: "Tout
> le monde privé de dessert !"
> as a side note: Christian, you earned what you called for: never argue
> with a
> french on his/her language. just don't. never ever.
Especially when it's somebody who is well known for actually paying a lot of
attention to *how* people speak (sometimes at the expend of *what* they
actually say :)) ). So when I claim that something is "common", I always have
more than my immediate surrounding to back up my claim.
Christophe.
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