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> The core issue is that spoken French and written French are two completely and widely separate languages In what way?

• realusername 8y ago
  Written french is largely codified by the french academy which is very conservative (so the written language did not evolve much in the past 100 years) whereas the spoken language evolved independently. It's a bit like slangs in English if you want but to a whole new level, the two parts of the language don't have much in common nowadays. Tenses, pronouns, grammar, sentence construction and words are different.
  • dpark 8y ago
    It’s hard for me to believe the they have diverged that much. I’d expect that the one would drastically influence the other. But then I don’t know French.