Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2004/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Language (was Klezmer info)
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:20:48 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Fay [mailto:kevinfay@-----.com]

> One quibble - I'm not sure that the French can afford to be purists
> either.

The French Canadians speak a French that is less touched by other languages
than what is spoken in Paris today. In some cases (my mother & father's
native tongue was the French of Canada) it's mutually incomprehensible.

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