Not knowing French - in any depth - here on the pavement - hearing from the house - French's - graceful nuance of sound and music - lifts from the window. Me crying softly - by the picket fence - with rose fragrance - drifting lazily by. Fare thee well.
ERROR...The main function of the Academy will be to work, with all possible care and diligence, to give certain rules to our language and to make it pure, eloquent and capable of dealing with the arts and sciences. it is not a question of ''protecting'' the French language
Stabbing an immortal? I thought they were only killed if another immortal ahem... Shortened them by 30 cm or so. (and then the last one would become mortal and leave for his home planet)
On dit aussi que la working class parle un anglais proche de l'anglais ancien germanique , alors que l'aristocratie anglaise parle un anglais sous influence française. Il y aurait souvent 2 mots pour dire la même chose, celui d'origine germanique et l'autre d'origine française.
Well it’s basically a retirement home. You move there when you’re to senile to produce anymore and not yet enough to find your place in an intensive geriatric care unit. A good hint is when you start saying the youth aren’t respectful anymore, due to the influence of americans and migration. That is why any humanistic mind should wish that the police enforces order the most violently possible when dealing with those troublemakers. French linguists are making fun of them all the time. It’s kind of a tradition.
Il y a eu 2 "francisations" de l'anglais. Quand le duc de Normandie Guillaume le Conquérant est devenu roi d'Angleterre. Les mots de "vieux français" très largement du "latin vulgaire" qui sont entrés dans le vocabulaire anglais. Se sont des mots comme Mushroom, able, car, chair, city, country and so on. Il y a tous les mots liés à l'église. Ca a duré du XIeme siècle au XIII-XIVeme siècle. Puis ensuite il y a eu l'influence hégémonique de la France (les USA de l'époque) sur toute l'Europe de +ou- 1400 à 1800 qui ont infusé la langue anglaise. C'était tout ce qui était lié aux science et aux techniques/technologie.
Hi, Paul! 30% of the English language is French. It all started in 1066 with William the Conqueror. And I know this because I had to write a paper back in the day doing a lot of research from reliable sources. Sorry I missed the live.
French was influenced by the germanic Frankish, English was influenced by the germanic Saxons and also by Normans. Many west european languages share common influences and evoluated during centuries.
Hello Paul , I just sent an email of French words prononced badly that somehow make sense in English 🤯 I apologize for using the terrible translation mail for something else than a translation mistake We had such a great time playing this game, I hope this will make you laugh too
When you think English and French have nothing to do with one another, think again. Let’s take « war » and « guerre » for instance. Unrelated? Not at all! In old Norman (French) the word was « gwer » which became « guerre » in French. In 1066, when the (French) Normans invaded England and imported their language, they imported « gwer » to England which later became « war » (loosing the « g » and hardening the vowel). Same for « wasp » and « guêpe » that came from Norman « gwesp ». I’m a linguist, originally French-speaking but I studied English linguistics at university. The English language is indeed Germanic (the English prior to 1066 looked very much like current Dutch). The Norman invasion of England in 1066 profoundly transformed the English language and brought many Norman (French) words into the language. Today the English vocabulary is over 50% « French » because of what happened in 1066. So yes English is partly « French » but this is what makes it one of the richest languages in the world. Indeed for many concepts you have a Germanic word and a « Latin » word which allow you to be more nuanced when you speak because they have slightly different connotations (ex: freedom and liberty).
I have to leave a comment on your terrible translation of the « only toilet paper in the toilet ». I’m surprised to see it in the men’s room but this is very common in ladies rooms to say that hygene products should be thrown in the bin and not in the toilet. So it’s not a terrible translation but has a purpose. 😂
If you go this way French is just badly pronounced Dutch, it's got more germanic words than any of the latin languages; germanic influenced the french pronounciation and the syntax of French too.
Actually it’s not true. They’re are approximately 100 000 words in the French language and approximately 350 000 definitions covering the different meanings of all these words which exactly 544 of them are of Germanic origins. Also they’re many words similar in French and Germanic languages because they actually borrowed French words. Furthermore, If you look at history it’s quite normal that the French language is the most Germanic influenced romance language. Finally, the syntax of French is not quite similar to the Germanic languages, actually the closer language to French (syntax and vocabulary included) is Italian but some people say English which is also true.
@@elsasvenski1566 You should make your mind, is it "not true" or "historically normal". My point was that it was as dumb as saying "English is badly prounounced French"
@@francoiscarlier2439 Well jokes on me then. I took your comment quite seriously. But tbh approximately 40% of the English vocabulary came from French. And in the French language there is less than 1% words of Germanic origin. So the joke “English is badly pronounced French” still stand.
You are wrong ! There are many germanic words in Spanish and Italian, too : Guerra, Gonzalvo, roba, etc. are germanic words, out of wisigothic and lombardian germanic languages. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, France and England are a mixture of germanic, celtic and latin speaking people. French IS NOT "more germanic" than Italian and Spanish, it is a wrong theory.
If you like to tell bullshit, Spanish is just badly pronounced Arabic. I can't understand why people put so much affect in language roots as if it changed anything in their identity to have 1% or 2% more of this or that language. It just means your ancestors where dominated by stranger until they took their language as their own. But i can now better understand why people write these kind of books, it's automatic success because all morons will run to buy it.
Un autre fault francais typique: penser que la belguique est un autre department francais. It’s be abuse of the Brussels beer. I like the difficult contraption that is English. A Germanic language thorowly shaken when the Norman became English king, while still vassal of the French crown
On dit que le français est du latin parlé avec l'accent allemand (franc). C'est ce qui fait que le français est si différent de l'italien ou de l'espagnol.
2;20 It is not a germanic language "inside". Old English it an anglo-saxon language. Even thought the saxon were coming from an area that is called Germany nowadays their language has quite a few difference with today's German. Complexity (conjugation, case as a start) sentense order, coumpound on word, alphabet (th and wh beeing two letters/sound non germanic) etc 🎉 Sure the guy's book title is inflamatory for selling purposes. But calling modern English an Abglo-Saxon languages, even if linguistically correct is completely misleading. Modern English is really More Anglo-Saxon-French 😅 Your rant on how French speak badly English can be rzversed on why English can not speak French when they literally have already about 40% of the word already, the sentense order already, etc Sure their are traps like complex conjugation, but the rest is a piece of cake 😁
