Re: French

In a message dated 2003:01:11 02.34.33 AM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:

>On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:31 am, Nik Taylor wrote:
>> Hee hee.  I hate the sound of French, to my ears, it sounds ugly and
>> indistinct, everything seems to run together like watercolors left out
>> in the rain.
    LOL... linguistic roots of Impressionism  *snarfle!*

>>  But, the grammar and history of the language is
>> fascinating.  :-)  I just wish it sounded nicer, without all those ugly
>> nasal vowels and front rounded vowels and with more stops to give some
>> texture to the sound.  :-)
>
>Yes, that's how I see it...
    AFAIK it really depends on the regional accent of the French used (or
abused).
Ferinstanz, 3 friends of mine are either active or veteran _Legionaire
Etranger_
(French Foreign Legion). Their French - usually L2 or L3 - is heavily
bastardized Southern French (Marseilles-area & Corsican) with Italian,
German, Spanish and English (esp'ly Cockney) influences on the phonology,
lexicon, &, to some extent, even the "standard French" syntax.
    IIRC there even is the term _Français Legionaire_ to describe this "very
coarse, vulgar French."

    And from what I have heard, the "street" French mesolect used in French
Polynesia is even more "mutated" - being influenced by local Polynesian
languages and various languages of various ex-pats and immigrants, run-aways
and castaways.
    Evidently, Paul Gauguin's ghost is still around haunting the living ;)

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