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Subject: Re: [OT] Is English just badly pronounced French?
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:30:43 -0400
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no_offline_contact@example.com wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> 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.

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