Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ubiquitous Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Is English just badly pronounced French? Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:30:43 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20240330222810.000036a5@example.com> <20240330230047.00003c68@example.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:43:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d02df5e3e7616e76f24a1c184899ca5c"; logging-data="2598332"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18bA5f1k51Aq+9iEXRu1RYnG3kV7ti3LLQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:fY+UIodc5h4JvDyiJ0Kb7V0zI/s= X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Bytes: 2212 no_offline_contact@example.com wrote: >"Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >> Rhino wrote: >> >I apologize in advance to Americans who are inevitably aggrieved by >> >all things French just on principle but this video actually makes a >> >pretty good case for saying that English is badly-pronounced French >> >to a large extent. >> >> >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q [18 minutes] >> >> >When he explains all the English words that are borrowed from French >> >with only slight spelling and pronunciation changes, you may well be >> >persuaded by his argument. >> >> Of course it is. The Norman invasion turned English into the >> international language that it is, with about 45% words with Latin >> roots. Thereafter, English borrowed any word from any language it >> needed. Didn't make the spelling work too good. >> >> In the nineteenth century, French scholars threw out their loan words >> and purified the language, making it useless as an international >> language. > >French was the court language of many monarchies, including the Russian >one, and also the language of diplomacy until WW I. There were quite a few Russian nobility who spoke French better than Russian. -- Let's go Brandon!