----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: An introduction
> 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 :)) .
Ok, I've heard you refer to this...can you explain it to me?
>
> >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 :)) .
>
Wait, so what would French people use instead of 'nous'. I wish they'd
teach us actual spoken French in school...