Re: Old French
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 13, 2002, 1:07 |
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> 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.
Hmm. I have a book called "L'ancien français" (Que Sais-je 1056, PUF)
which begins with the words "Le français ici en cause est celui qu'on
écrivait entre les _Serments de Strasbourg_ (843), le plus ancien
document en langue français ...". The book's rather old (1966), so maybe
opinion has changed. Though I can't see what's particularly French about
"Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament.." .
Stephen
trying to steer the conversation from gusiq-bashing :)