Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:07 AM 9/4/03 -0700, Jack McLain wrote: >I also spend a lot of time in Montreal and Quebec. They tell me that their >dialect of french is actually a very old version, Arcadian in origin >(16th/17th century) and has diverged from the european significantly since >=========================== I believe that modern linguistic historians, even Gallic ones, admit that Quebec French (sorry, I am too damned tired to dig out the appropriate symbols from my Character Map to spell Quebecois properly! And I have yet to go look at Mars this evening!) is closer to late 17th/early 18th century Mainstream French than is Modern Mainstream French, just as US English is closer to what the British spoke in 1725 than is modern British English. Small, isolated communities are more conservative than are mainstream communities. And, of course, it is wonderful to hear and read French where "roi" is not a curse-word! Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html