Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61386
Date: 2008-11-04

--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 6:10 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> >> >
>
> >>
> >> 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.
> > English Creoles have moved across borders into
> Cameroons, Equatorial
> > Guinea (Bioko), Caribbean Central America, Dutch
> Antilles, Suriname,
> > Colombian islands, and I think some of the minor
> French islands of the
> > Caribbeans such as St. Barts. I've been told Krio
> runs along the coast
> > from Sierra Leone to the Congo border, albeit in some
> places as a lingua
> > franca, in others as a market language, and, my
> Ghanaian colleagues tell
> > me, with the exception of Ghana, where Akan is the
> lingua franca
> >
> ==========
>
> In Cameroon,
> English seems to be one of the official languages.
> I remember a recent football match between Egypt and
> Cameroon with
> announcements being made in French and English.
>
> A.
Yes, but the officially English-speaking part is very small. The English creole has spilled into the French part, according to my colleagues from there --many of whom have French first names but know English better than French.