Re: Franco-Proven?al

--- On Fri, 2/20/09, congotre o <congotron@...> wrote:

> From: congotre o <congotron@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Franco-Proven?al
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 1:50 AM
> Well, I'm from California and I think my English is
> perfect. : )
> I was born here and you'd think there would be a heavy
> Latino influence on Anglo speech, but I can't think of
> any changes so far; but mostly what I hear is heavy -r
> endings and pal being pronounced 'peh-al', maybe the
> fronting of 'cool' too.
> "For sure" ends in a long, long -r.
> And of course: 'whateverrr!'
>
> Is Franco-Provencal, as distinct from Parisian and Occitan,
> distinguished by any particularities not found in either
> neighbor? Or is it audible anywhere on YouTube?
>
>

It is different from both --as seen in Wikipedia