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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Thursday, June 5, 2003, 1:31
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