Re: Hello to you all!

En réponse à "Karapcik, Mike" <Karapcik@...>:

>         He said that in southern France (Marseille?), one of the locals
> told
> him that regardless of what anyone in Paris says, anyone who speaks
> perfect
> "textbook" French is actually from one of the old colonies. The
> Benedictines
> enforced perfect pronunciation with a ruler, and so they are not
> influenced
> by slang and colloquialisms.
>
Indeed (and I agree on the "there's Paris, but in France..." :)) ). Here I know
quite a few French-speaking people working in Delft like me, but the only one
who speaks a perfectly grammatically correct French (to the extent that it gets
annoying :)) ) is a Lebanese having lived ten years in Canada :)) .

Christophe.

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