Re: Orthography supporting sound changes?


Ar an t-ochtú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

> > Part of the displacement, at least, happened with military
> > service--cf. the Breton experience, where the first step in its
> > hopefully-reversing death was sparked by the realisation of soldiers in
> > the Grande Guerre that French as a vernacular was much more useful--and
> > soldiers under 16 in Europe haven’t been the normal course of events
> > for a 150 years, at least.
>
> Sorry, there's no way to relate French to Breton via "sound change."

I didn’t say there was. The process of displacement of the local language by
standard French was sparked off by military service; I cite Breton because I
have a source for it[1], but it would be silly to imagine that the same
process didn’t happen for speakers of Romance vernaculars.

[1] BROUDIC (Fañch). - La pratique du breton de l'Ancien régime à nos jours.

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