Re: CHAT: An introduction

MJR = Mark J. Reed (me)
CG = Christophe "I'm My Own" Grandsire

MJR> I think living, spoken French is the most different of any language
MJR> I've encountered from the written language you learn in class.
MJR> For instance; you won't hear [nous] on the street in Paris.

CG> True, but Paris is the worst example to use for Spoken French. Go around
CG> the country and you will see that "nous" is still alive, even if rare
CG> (lately I've been hearing "nous on" very often ;))) . So "nous" is still
CG> used as subject, but "on" is added and the verb agrees in third person
CG> singular ;))) . Again a proof that the subject pronouns have actually
CG> become conjugation prefixes :) ).

Very interesting, if a tad bizarre.  Do keep us posted on the morphing
morphology of French. :)

CG> [Nous is] less common. But not yet so rare. At least it doesn't sound
CG> strange in my ears, only maybe a little affected.

Affected?  So I could come over there and sound like an
even-more-arrogant-than-usual American instead of an ugly one? :)

-Mark

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