How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

Post by heywhatupboys » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 9:15 PM UTC

mr90210 wrote: post #10

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, yes, except that this is the language (and its rules) that is taught as school.

Do your research on European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese, and you’ll realize that the latter owns its own version and defines its own standard without needing the consent from any other country. So, there is nothing France or any institution can do about it.

Post by blackshaw » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #6

> Members of the French Academy, the 17th-century institution that publishes an official dictionary of the French language, have been working on the same edition for the past 40 years. This is nonsense. The French Academy is adding new words to the dictionary every year. The whole article is weak to say the least. Of course, the French spoken abroad is changed by the local influences. This is the sam case as with any…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 9:22 PM UTC

taimurkazmi wrote: post #5

You're find this out now? After four centuries of Spanish in the Americas, Spanish speakers there have developed an enormous culture and diversity and innovation in the language. I remind my Spanish friends that there are three times the number of Spanish speakers in Mexico than in Spain. In fact, there are more Spanish speakers in the United States there are more Spanish speakers than in Spain. Ditto for Portuguese,…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #6

> Members of the French Academy, the 17th-century institution that publishes an official dictionary of the French language, have been working on the same edition for the past 40 years. This is nonsense. The French Academy is adding new words to the dictionary every year. The whole article is weak to say the least. Of course, the French spoken abroad is changed by the local influences. This is the sam case as with any…

Post by yieldcrv » Sun, Dec 17, 2023, 9:25 PM UTC

dudul wrote: post #17

grecy wrote: post #11

Learning French while exploring West Africa was enormously good fun. For most people it's their 3rd or 4th or 5th language, and they were always so full of joy and happiness than I was trying my best. Nobody ever corrected my pronunciation or criticized me for my bad grammar and lack of vocabulary. (Cough, France, Cough). Thanks to all the encouragement and positivity I picked it up pretty quickly, and thoroughly enj…

French people always get criticized for not understanding foreigners' broken French. It is not out of malice. It is because it actually is very hard to understand broken French. A lot of very different words sound similar. A very simple grammatical mistake can completely change the meaning of a sentence. And yeah, it's probably kind of the same in English, but French is not the linga franca English is today (see what…