Re: Old French

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:08:36 -0400 Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...>
writes:
> I think he included it in Early Modern French (that is, the author
> that
> didn't use the term Middle French -- he used Early and Late Old
> French, and
> Early and Late Modern French, or something like that). Bear in mind
> that
> these books were some decades old (or reprints) and their Late
> Modern
> French probably referred to the literary French of that time, not
> colloquial French ca. 2000 (personally, I'd say _these_ are too
> different to use the same name).
> Jeff
> >Christophe.
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Now, i don't know where Jeff is, but since his name is very anglophone
i'll assume that it isn't France or the Netherlands.  Could it simply be
that you two are working from different traditions of the Historical
Linguistics of French, one in French and the other in English?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "i'm on my way,
  laa a3rif aina aðhab..."

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