Re: Question sur la liaison

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:39:20 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels writes:
>
> > We were taught, some forty years ago, that the "best" French is from the
> > Loire Valley, not from Paris.
>
> Listen to British "best pronunciations" from a few decades ago, and
> you'll note that standards have changed.
>
> In any case, yes, the Loire valley is a very standard French. Today,
> however, that French sounds just like what a great many Parisians speak.
> The Parisians have aligned on the standard just as much as it has
> aligned on them. As in many other developed countries, larger and
> larger segments of the population are speaking a relatively "vanilla"
> standard dialect that isn't obviously associated with any particular
> region or class. One of the benefits of modern high-speed
> communications.

Yeah, right. Just like US speech is standardizing around L.A. dialect
because it's what's mostly heard on TV. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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