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Oh, sweet, sweet irony from the British medias. How dare we keep our linguistic identity and not surrender to THEIR language in day to day conversations? I gues
by rahen 4y ago
Oh, sweet, sweet irony from the British medias. How dare we keep our linguistic identity and not surrender to THEIR language in day to day conversations? I guess they surely would rejoice giving up English and using French if the roles were reversed, wouldn't they?
Interestingly, I've noticed a trend here to use English words or expressions to pimp various meetings, although the terms are often used out of context and act as a decoy to hide some lack of field knowledge, or downright language skills.
Ironically, the more English words they tend to use, the less is their ability to sustain a fluent conversation in English. When I communicate in English at least I try to make an effort not to sprinkle French words everywhere. I also do the same in French, and I'd rather not bastardize the language further.
- chrisseaton 4y agoWhat is wrong with loan-words in your mind? English takes a great many loan words from French without worrying about it. It's a natural part of language evolution that we embrace. It hasn't threatened the identity of English yet.
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- rahen 4y agoNothing wrong with loan-words. It becomes a problem though when it becomes linguistic and/or cultural imperialism (trying to undermine various cultures and languages through a more dominant one). French Canada could say a few things about that. Well, granted, English and French have a special history as they both invaded countless countries to the point those two languages eventually became spoken on all continents. I guess it's only fair when it backfires sometimes, and there's a bit of irony when it happens between those two languages in particular.
- MathYouF 4y agoThe first such invasion in the last millenia was that of England by the French Normans (themselves having been invaded only a generation before by Danish pagans), where French language was loosely imposed across the lands for several centuries, leading to the English we have today, majorly comprised of French loan words.
- hoseja 4y agoAll anglos seem to viscerally hate prescriptivism for some reason, indeed likely to better push their mongrel merchant pidgin onto everyone else.
- john_the_writer 4y agoThat seems odd to me. As a mostly english speaking Canadian, I have a pile of french and german words pushing into my vocabulary. I never felt the word Kindergarten was pushed into my diction. It just works. My CV or Resume speaks for itself. :) I don't really view these as borrowed words. They are just words. Just the same, I don't get upset when I spell colour without the U, when I program. I find is super odd that a country that gave us free speech spends so much time working on a way to police the words their people use.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> I find is super odd that a country that gave us free speech spends so much time working on a way to police the words their people use. What does America have to do with this?