Re: CHAT: Ebonic Xmass

At 10:25 13/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Well, hey, your compatriots have been brainwashed into believing that
>if they write so much as a grocery list without observing every convention
>of formal standard written French as laid down in the 17th century, they
>are Bad Dog, No Doggy Biscuit!  Breaking free from that attitude must be
>a lifelong effort....
>
        Well, the problem is not about writing in a way which was consistent only
two centuries ago (about that, I'm pretty conservative), but about saying
that words have to be pronounced as they are written, whereas nobody in
France does it (it's simply impossible!), even those who complain. And when
you talk about silent letters and all, they look at you as if you were
speaking Martian :( . But it's true that the problem comes from an
education that gives more importance to the written thing than to the
spoken one.

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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