Re: CHAT: Nov 11th
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 19:48 |
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Matt Pearson wrote:
> Thomas Wier wrote:
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> >Moreover, that doesn't explain why peoples with mutually unintelligible
> >and often totally unrelated languages, like the US and Japan or Canada
> >and France, can remain the best of friends.
>
> LOL! Yes, I'm sure many Frenchmen would consider Quebec French and
> Parisian French to be "mutually unintelligible and totally unrelated"! :-)
Well, I shoulda put an "and/or" there :) -- but seriously there are
*varieties* of Quebecois French that are unintelligible, or at least,
that's what one of my Canadian friends (originally from France)
tells me. And I'm not just talking about /tsyb/ for <tube> here.
Not to mention the not (as closely) related language which
most Canadians speak -- English.
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