Re: Old french Was: cases

>> By the way, has any one ever paid some attention to this "street
>> language", i mean, the one from the bad suburbs of paris?
>
>Of course! Parisian French is a French dialect like any other, not
>an "incorrect" French.
>
> I think
>> considering it only as incorect french is probably not true on the
>> linguistic point of view.
>
>And indee the linguistic point of view is that it's just another variety of
>French.
>
> It has probably its own syntax, slightly
>> different from official dialect, in addition to its obviously different
>> vocabulary.
>>
>
>But the important thing to realise is that French dialect differ only slightly
>in syntax from standard French, and that's all due to the grammarians of the
>last centuries. Dialects like Normand and Picard nearly disappeared, and left
>place to watered down versions with near identical grammar to French, and only
>some differences in vocabulary.
No no no. I was not talking about french for paris. But from the one from "evil"
places near paris. The one "racailles" speaks in the "cites", the one from
"93". This one where "verlant" is almost compulsory, and where loans from
algerian/marocan are many. This one, having never entered schools, is probably
not so close. And its speakers are quite unlikely to be able to read descartes.
I don't know how different is the grammar, but i guess it is. As for
vocabulary, I think it is so different that it gets impossible to understand
for someone not accustomed.

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