Re: THEORY: Re : THEORY: Semivowels

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 09/09/99 19:19:06  , Charles a =E9crit :


>  Uhmm, excusez-moi, mais, what would happen if the French Academy
>  and the King and Brigitte Bardot were all to decree that
>  la French pronunciation must be strictly according to its spelling?
>  No more silent letters. Let's do that to Englishe too.
> =20
i would abide by the Academie's decree.
she could invent "p" in septembre and
force people to pronounce it as well as the mute "a"
in ao=FBt and stick new ending consonants a bit everywhere
with till-then-unknown liaison status that everyone
conspicuously pronounce by now to show faithful submission.
if she tells i can execute liaison in "un n-haricot", i do it.
if she forbids, i dare not. and when she wants me to put
feminine -e after a participle i agree with her - especially if
i can't get the rule right half of the time because it is obscure
100% of the time. i know She knows.

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