HIghlord Diamond
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Posted - 2010.05.07 06:31:00 -
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Originally by: Nicholas Barker
Saying french/english for gallante because i've heard the french borrow alot of english words simply because we've got so many more.
Are you telling me a joke, or do you sincerely believe what you posted there?
French from France are using a lot of English words because they admire Americans and believe it's cool and funny, and they use those English words with a truly unfitting accent that makes them almost unrecognizable. The wonderfully ironic truth is, English was drastically LACKING in vocabulary until they start using and transforming words from French to fill the gaps. Anyone who knows enough about those two languages to be considered an expert in both could instantly confirm you without a hint of doubt French is clearly ahead in terms in vocabulary and overall linguistic structure. It's overall one of the most complete, beautiful and pain in the ass to learn languages in the entire world, and English is so far behind the shocking emoticon at the beginning of this reply really illustrates what my initial facial expression was when I saw your post.
That being said, English is the dominant language on Earth, the one language most people learn as their second tongue in order to interact with everyone around the world. This is due mostly to two factors : It's easy to learn, one of the simplest languages in existence, but just evolve enough to get the job done really well (you could argue that this point alone makes English a 100 times better that French, but this doesn't validates your original post.) Second, thanks to the British nation having expanded a very large and powerful empire in the last centuries, English has been heard and later thought all over the world for a while now.
Has a final comment, I live in Quebec, which I could describe as a melting pot of many many cultures and languages, but mostly French (70%) English (20%) and Others (10%). Here in this eastern province of Canada, we've been resisting assimilation in the English Canadian population and culture for around 250 years and we got them quite ****ed off about it. Even if we do use English a lot, we've been able to maintain our French much better than France is. It's 'mostly clean, but adoption and transformation of some words was inevitable. Still, we do not adopt English words into our daily French conversations just for the heck of it and to be cool and stuff. We either use French of English depending on the listener. (We also use something called 'Joual' which is a variation of French only found within our nation which only us have a possible hope of understanding. Our poor friends from France are also completely lost by our accent. ) So if you want to hear real French, and not that teenage monstrosity France Frenches are using, either get to know one of us, or a older French dude who remembers how it was back in the days where intercontinental relations and communications were too limited by lack of technology to allow English to be heard bu the common folk on a daily basis.
With that said, je vous souhaite une bonne journTe! (I wish you a good day!)
/rant
Now for the actual main topic of the thread, I have little to say except that Gallentes rather sounds like Frenches from France using proper English (and some French expressions from time to time) with of course their typical very off accent.
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