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Title: English just badly pronounced French
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 10, 2024, 12:45:55 PM
May wee

https://www.thelocal.fr/20240310/english-just-badly-pronounced-french-paris-academic-says
Title: Re: English just badly pronounced French
Post by: Harrowby Hall on March 12, 2024, 07:17:49 PM
English is two languages that exist simultaneously side by side with each other.

One is a germanic language largely based on short (largely mono or bisyllabic) words whose condition and situation are modified by additional particle words. The other, introduced by the Normans was derived from descendents of Latin in which words can become multisyllabic - partly because in order to provide the modifications required to provide condition and situation inflections rather than particles are used. These are additional syllables usually found at the end of words.

It is possible in English to make a statement in either of these two linguistic systems. For example:



     In Norman French influenced English                     Meretricious sesquipedalianism
     
     In germanic influenced English                              Bullshit baffles brains


Title: Re: English just badly pronounced French
Post by: jeremyp on March 13, 2024, 10:39:27 AM
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on March 12, 2024, 07:17:49 PM
English is two languages that exist simultaneously side by side with each other.

One is a germanic language largely based on short (largely mono or bisyllabic) words whose condition and situation are modified by additional particle words. The other, introduced by the Normans was derived from descendents of Latin in which words can become multisyllabic - partly because in order to provide the modifications required to provide condition and situation inflections rather than particles are used. These are additional syllables usually found at the end of words.

It is possible in English to make a statement in either of these two linguistic systems. For example:



     In Norman French influenced English                     Meretricious sesquipedalianism
     
     In germanic influenced English                              Bullshit baffles brains

It's possible that "to baffle" is of French origin

https://www.etymonline.com/word/baffle

Title: Re: English just badly pronounced French
Post by: jeremyp on March 13, 2024, 10:44:20 AM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 10, 2024, 12:45:55 PM
May wee

https://www.thelocal.fr/20240310/english-just-badly-pronounced-french-paris-academic-says

I was all ready to get angry, but having read the article, I now want to go out and buy the book.
Title: Re: English just badly pronounced French
Post by: Steve H on March 13, 2024, 10:46:41 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d%27Heures