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It sounds like a calque of regular Spanish 'a que si' rather than anything else.
by mbroncano 9y ago
It sounds like a calque of regular Spanish 'a que si' rather than anything else.
- mixmastamyk 9y agoNot oui in French?
- kiliancs 9y agoIf you read the article, this is a pattern in a number of languages, so there's no reason for it to come from French. It's also unlikely because the pronunciation is very different: https://forvo.com/word/oi/#ca https://forvo.com/word/oi/#ca
- mixmastamyk 9y agoCatalonia borders France and has some similarities though.
- kiliancs 9y agoBordering with French is a newer phenomenon, though. Catalonia has traditionally bordered Occitan-speaking territories to the North so it has way more influence from Occitan than from French.
- kiliancs 9y agoA calque wouldn't take such a particular word as "oi". The sentence makes sense coming from oral language, where you say oi to ask for confirmation and add the rest to specify in which direction. People do say "eh que sí", which, cal que or not, follows the same pattern, and even "a que sí", which definitely copies the Spanish expression.