Originally posted by Alan Coles:
The biggest problem is that the French language is slowly going in the same direction as Latin - becoming a dead language, and understandably most French speaking people don't like the reality of the situation.

Unfortunately, because of this they are continually doing some pretty stupid things, and they seem to be doing them more frequiently.

The Japannese are also doing similar things in the same stupid futile effort to stop the inevitable.



Well I guess we won't be seeing the french language die in our lifetime.. But it will diseappear eventually. I wonder which language will prevail then?

I think it's awful to see that the French - as in "living-in-France" - are using more and more english words in their everyday conversations. You won't hear them using "stationnement", "pharmacie", "magasinage", but rather "parking", "drugstore" and "shopping"! The subtle differences in the prononciation of sounds derived from "e" are almost nonexistent - true in France, but not in other parts of the french-speaking world.

My native language is french, and boy am I glad I learned english while I was young....

Getting back to the changing of words.. "courriel" has been in use in Quebec for a few years now, it's the "officiality" of the word by "L'Académie Française" - roughly the French language "standard" that has been acknowledged. But I doubt it will be used by the majority in France, the word "e-mail" sounds cooler to them..

Oh well... and since I'm canadian too, I must add: eh?

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