Re: Languages in Europe - Who understands what ?

From: devil (devil_at_attglobal.net)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:30:18 GMT

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:51:30 +0100, Wiktor S. wrote:

>>> By and large, Quebec rediscovered their language over the last thirty
>>> years, and came back from a very bastardized French to a more
>>> neutral one.
>>
>> Following your logic, English is a very "bastardized" French and
>> Afrikaans is the very bastardized Dutch. I don't see how the word may
>> be applied to languages.
>
> If English is bastardized French, and Quebecian is bastardized French, may I
> say the latter is "English Mk2"? :-)

Who is it whom you are trying to provoke? :-)

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