From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61382
Date: 2008-11-04
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> Depends on the level. Both have proven themselves at the highest level yet
> English has managed to function as a lingua franca at the lowest levels.
> True, there are French creole languages but they are never regarded as
> French, while English creoles are generally seen as English dialect. It is
> telling that there are English creoles in places never ruled by
> English-speaking powers.
>
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That's an interesting point.
In French, the word "dialect" tends to be limited to the historical dialects
of old French.
There's a pervading fiction that modern (France) French has no dialect,
something that is obviously contradicted by reality,
and the fact I have much trouble understanding somebody from Narbonne,
not to speak about Quebec French and Creoles.
Where is there English creoles in places never ruled by English-speaking
powers ?
Chicago Black Ghetto !?
A.