I think the French language tolerates it just fine. French <i>people</i> don't tolerate <i>people</i> who butcher the language, because it's a social thing, bu

I think the French language tolerates it just fine. French <i>people</i> don't tolerate <i>people</i> who butcher the language, because it's a social thing, but there's not a human language in existence that doesn't degrade gracefully. You can walk from Paris to Rome, never finding two neighboring villages that can't understand one another. Somewhere along the way, what they're talking isn't exactly French or Italian -- they just polish up their speech when the government men from France come. That's less true today than it used to be, of course; more people go to the city for education. But it's still true of everybody's grandma. My point is that all human languages are fault-tolerant.