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ealusaid
2007-04-18 03:00 am UTC (link)

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.

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	miraba 2007-04-18 03:29 am UTC (link)
	The high nobility of that era did not speak the same French as the colons. You did that on purpose, right? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ealusaid 2007-04-18 03:33 am UTC (link)
	Um... from my cluelessness, either I didn't and I can't see the error, or you mean 'colons' which is on purpose. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	miraba 2007-04-18 03:35 am UTC (link)
	Yes, the colons. I now have some great mental images of French-speaking colonials setting up towns inside of Tigerwolf's colon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2007-04-18 04:08 am UTC (link)
	They'd fall right out from his magical lubrication powers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	glossing2 2007-04-18 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	At least they'd be clean, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eilan 2007-04-18 06:20 am UTC (link)
	Tyrolean German ... What? Do you mean Swiss German? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mael 2007-04-18 01:03 pm UTC (link)
	As someone from South Tyrol, I have to say that we've always classified the German spoken in the region as Tyrolean German (I don't speak it, I'm from the Italian half, and we wouldn't categorize the dialect we speak as Italian either). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eilan 2007-04-18 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmm, somehow it shows up on Google now, too. Didn't this morning. Weird... And I never heard of it being called that before. The only German dialects that I know of that are actually called differently are Swiss German and Plattdeutsch. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ealusaid 2007-04-18 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	No; she says it's spoken in Italy (she's from Trento). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	singe 2007-04-18 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	can suddenly read a newspaper in Catalan I wish I could be ambushed with sudden new knowledge like that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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