Re: History of French

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 05:16:33 +0200

Ruud Harmsen writes:

> Yeah, right, especially that woman in the link I mentioned elsewhere
> in the thread, with her almost Scottish/Italian trilled r. Trained
> yes, but standard? In that era maybe, when the standard was still very
> much alienated from the language of the street.

Broadcasters have been taught a very neutral and standard pronunciation
for decades, although I'll grant that it wasn't always as natural as
compared to a true averaging of language out in the general population.

> Probably hard to describe phonetically, but clearly noticeable.

If they are hard to describe phonetically, they must be small indeed.
Are you sure they really exist?

> And all this happens in a country 300 by 200 km.

It's not surface area, it's communication. You don't see Italians
starting to speak French, or French people starting to speak Spanish,
even though distances are small. 

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