Re: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 16:26 |
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En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
>
> As for my somewhat emotional response: That's what happens when you
> make
> generalisations like "I don't think *anyone* would ever naturally
> connect |ei| to [e]" although there are several people who do on this
> list, or (implicitly) "the French of your France-born grandmother and
> your France-born teacher of French and of pretty much every native
> French
> TV announcer / radio jockey is ridiculous and not real French".
>
Except that the last part of your claim is absolutely false. There is no native
French TV announcer that pronounces final -et as [E], and that in whatever
French speaking country (I know that for sure, having the international French
speaking channel TV5, I've been able to hear TV announcers from Switzerland,
Belgium, Quebec, Luxemburg and other countries). And I've never said it was
not "real" French, just that it was not "common" French!!! Am I clear enough
this time? I'm getting pretty upset that you put in my mouth things that I
never said just to look like a victim!
Christophe.
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