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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, June 5, 2003, 19:59
En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>Very interesting, if a tad bizarre.
That's French for you! :)
> Do keep us posted on the morphing >morphology of French. :)
Don't worry, I'll keep telling about the true polysynthetic nature of French, hidden by an orthography which makes it look synthetic and analytical :)) .
>Affected? So I could come over there and sound like an >even-more-arrogant-than-usual American instead of an ugly one? :)
Not "even-more-arrogant-than-usual", just "as-arrogant-as-usual" ;)))) . The French in general don't have a very high opinion of the Americans already, that it's not the use of "nous" (unless you begin to use it for yourself, as the "nous de majesté" :)) ) which is gonna change anything :)) . Note that I am the first to recognise how stereotyped the French vision of other countries is :)) . Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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