French one of the most touched languages by English?!

A6142IC   Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:49 am GMT
"Laughing out loud ... I can see why French people suck at English."

Then how do you explain why "English people" suck at French?
Guest   Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:33 am GMT
Because there's a lot of inter-Channel fellatio?
greg   Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:03 pm GMT
sayariza : « One reason why there are not many English words, becauxe those words are forbidden to use. Frech language autority is the only institution inthe world filled with narrow minded people, xenophobia, anglophobia and exclusive.. »

Ton intention était peut-être de partager avec nous ton ignorance abyssale — dans ce cas c'est réussi —, mais si tu souhaitais aborder le fonctionnement et les buts de l'Académie (qu'on peut apprécier ou rejeter —> c'est un autre problème), tu aurais pu au moins te documenter : l'objectif de l'Académie est de mettre ***l'usage*** en relief et non d'édicter des fatwas linguistiques que de toute façon personne ne suivrait.
sayaria   Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:38 pm GMT
Ton intention était peut-être de partager avec nous ton ignorance abyssale — dans ce cas c'est réussi —, mais si tu souhaitais aborder le fonctionnement et les buts de l'Académie (qu'on peut apprécier ou rejeter —> c'est un autre problème), tu aurais pu au moins te documenter : l'objectif de l'Académie est de mettre ***l'usage*** en relief et non d'édicter des fatwas linguistiques que de toute façon personne ne suivrait.


France is weak countries which still has obsession about their golden ages 200 years ago. Time is changed. The isolationism and xenophobia of French makes their country is sinking, no country in Europe which has 40 % jobless, no country in europe where goverment still decides which words can be used by their citizens, no country in EU who their leader so arrigance, left a international meeting because the speech in English.

Time can be changed, but French still dreams about 200 years ago glory.
Even in their ex colonies in Indochina, French as only third choice after English and Mandarin.
greg   Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:39 pm GMT
France is weak countries which still has obsession about their golden ages 200 years ago. Time is changed. The isolationism and xenophobia of French makes their country is sinking, no country in Europe which has 40 % jobless, no country in europe where goverment still decides which words can be used by their citizens, no country in EU who their leader so arrigance, left a international meeting because the speech in English.

Time can be changed, but French still dreams about 200 years ago glory.
Even in their ex colonies in Indochina, French as only third choice after English and Mandarin.


nice..!
greg   Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:38 pm GMT
sayaria : « (...) arrigance (...) ».

T'as raison : ça rime avec <ignirance>.
Askatasunera   Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:27 pm GMT
Me personally I find that when one writes in English it's ugly because of the Germanic one
Xoroi.   Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:22 pm GMT
Al·lots, sou vertaderament emprenyadors amb les vostres baralles, especialment entre anglesos i francesos. Em pensava que això era un fòrum sobre la llengua anglesa, no un galliner ple de galls forasters.

Que estigueu bons... sobretot del cap.
Kelly   Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:47 pm GMT
One thing I like about French speakers of English: they pronounce [@] in the right way: hug [h@g], but [b@t]...

You don't hear Cockey a in their words: no [hag], [bat]
Guest   Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:00 am GMT
I think that's because of how the French are taught English in their schools which is heavily reliant on orthography, like the "u" in this case. But I would transcribe the vowel as [9] using X-Sampa. So, for example, they pronounce "club" in English as they would in French. This is an imitatation or approximation of the [V] vowel in British/RP and General American. But it isn't the "right" way for a native English speaker.
greg   Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:54 am GMT
Guest : « But I would transcribe the vowel as [9] using X-Sampa. »

Je suis du même avis.

<hug> [9g]
<but> [b9t]
<club> [kl9b]