Re: Double French?


wugi wrote:
"Où veux-tu que ça soye?"
"mb" :
That's just the equivalent of the so-called eye dialect, i.e.
suggesting that the speaker pronounces a glide in "soie" (as is
frequently done in folk speech).

wugi:
Yes, but the glide in "...ça soit" would seem to me a slip of the
mind-and-mouth parts:-)

No slip. Been there for centuries.

"Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe?"
Has this construct by chance been registered as normal usage?

"mb" :
It's true that an "il" subject is generally written in the affirmative
or negative forms only (...)
Besides, "qu'est-ce qui se passe" and "qu'est-ce qu'il
se passe" are both grammatically kosher (albeit different as to
construction).

wugi:
Well, I don't get the koshertyness of the
"Que-est-ce-que il se passe" construct, whereas I do with the
"Que-est-ce-qui se passe".

Usual and grammatical are not exactly the same thing.

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