Re: CHAT: An introduction

At 21:00 04/06/03, you wrote:
>En réponse à Pavel Iosad :
>
>> >
>> > Why is it always French which suffers from such dislikes? :((((
I regret mentioning it now. :/

I can think of two reasons not mentioned so far that French might be
especially targeted: (1) as a relatively likely language it is often taught
in schools, and therefore often appallingly badly; (2) in my experience
more people insist what a beautiful or perfect language French is than
insist it of other languages, and dislike occurs in reaction.

But I am sure it is not only French that suffers from such dislikes.

>>An anecdote from our morphology class. The teacher is, quite contrary to
>>my views, a big fan of Romance languages. As we were discussing
>>reduction of case systems, he quoted the Old French _roys_-type:
>>
>>         Sg.     Pl.
>>Rect.   roys    roy
>>Obliqu. roy     roys

Actually, I always rather liked this. :)  And come to think of it, I do
quite like Old French (what little I have seen of it).

Ian