hi christian....it's roger from new york.....lost your email and want to send you a note.......send me a note at faisdodo2@hvc.rr.com

bon soir!
roger

Hi Roger,
When I try I get a message saying that there is something wrong in your address.

Christian

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hi christian....it's roger from new york.....lost your email and want to send you a note.......send me a note at faisdodo2@hvc.rr.com

bon soir!
roger

"Standard" French was once a dialect of French... and it still is just a dialect of French. I remember reading that only 7% of French-speaking people in the world speak Parisian French, simply because Paris is just one city within the entire French-speaking world.

To learn a little more about how a dialect becomes the national standard, check out Website Link #3.

When I was in Belgium, we visited one of my friends' aunts, an old lady who was probably 80-somehting years old, and she spoke with a rolled "r." Also, a lady from France told me that in the northern French countryside it's common to hear "Mon, j'connais" and "Mon, j'connais pas" rather than the "standard" "Moi, je sais" and "Moi, je ne sais pas." Also, in Vendée (the west of France) they use "être après + infinitive" to form the present progressive verb tense (the English present -ing tense).

So, yeah, Parisian French ain't all that. In my opinion, it seems unnatural. Cajun French is easier and it just rolls off my tongue like rain falling out of the sky to nourish a garden. Without Cajun French in Louisiana, the Cajun garden will surely dry up and never grow back. We must speak it for our garden to grow. We must BE the change that we want to see in the world.

---Roy---

First time I came in Quebec, I heard my canadian buisness partner say: "C'est vrai bien de même, je suis bien aise"(I cannot write the accent)
it seemed to me I was some years before listening to gallo which is the french like dialect spoken in the eastern part of brittany. This language I learned from my O'ma and spoke with other boys back in the fifties.
As a "monsieur docteur" I would not dare and speak this gallo with well to do people in France.
France is full of Franglais, IE english words: email, shopping, best sellers; our french speaking cousins in Qc say: courriel, magasinage, meilleurs vendeurs.
Ils sauveront le français! amis acadiens aidez nous aussi!
Have you read the book of claude Duneton, "La mort du français", it is about all we are just writing about
The french speaking Homo sapiens is an endangered specy and should be protected as such!
Hervé
(breton living in Rheims)

"a small southwest French village where the old folks sounded remarkably Cajun and hardly ever had any contacts with Paris"....

Ton Merlot te monte à la caboche, mon pauv' vieux !

Babarotte de mes deux!
chu pas ton "pauv' vieux" eh! du con.

Thank you, Jean-Pierre, for your most dignified words :

You wrote back:

++++Babarotte de mes deux!++++

+++++ chu pas ton "pauv' vieux" eh! du con.++++

which I'll roughly translate for my dear friends on this forum. Your words are:

"Fancy, my balls !
I'm not your 'poor ole chum', hey you c.u.n.t !"

Thanks again.

My reply to your most elegant words is simply this:

Asinus asinum fricat !

But I suppose you don't understand latin, do you ?

Gerard Dole