Re: Old French
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 12, 2002, 14:07 |
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En réponse à Abrigon Gusiq <abrigon@...>:
> It seems some say that Old French dates from c.850ad or c.987ad.
> Though
> what different languages did the great-grandsons of Charlemagne/Karl
> die
> Gross speak? They spoke different languages, one German in nature
> (Frankish?), the other Gallo-Roman or Old French!? This is c.800ad..
> When the met to decide on the fate of the lates that
> Charlemagne/Charles
> the Great won.
>
Please get your facts right! You're talking about the "serments de Strasbourg"
which were written in Roman and Tudesque (indeed a Romance and a Germanic
language). Old French didn't exist by then, and nobody ever said so. Roman is
an ancestor of Old French that's true, but nothing else, and its grammar and
syntax were too different to be called French.
Christophe.
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