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ealusaid (ealusaid) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank, |
I'm just finishing up a semester in which my Romance Studies teacher, who speaks standard Italian, French, and Spanish, as well as Catalan, Ladin, Provencal, and Tyrolean German, if nothing else, pounded "There is no REAL [language]!" into our heads. Now this whole discussion makes me roll my eyes.
(On the upside, all I know is Latin and French, and I can suddenly read a newspaper in Catalan!)
Oh, and:
The French dialect that the first French settles brought to Quebec was the King's French, spoken before the French Revolution many hundreds of years ago.
LOL. More like the dialect of criminals and minor functionaries in the time of Louis XIV! The high nobility of that era did not speak the same French as the colons.
(On the upside, all I know is Latin and French, and I can suddenly read a newspaper in Catalan!)
Oh, and:
The French dialect that the first French settles brought to Quebec was the King's French, spoken before the French Revolution many hundreds of years ago.
LOL. More like the dialect of criminals and minor functionaries in the time of Louis XIV! The high nobility of that era did not speak the same French as the colons.
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