la langue francais (678 hits)
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Submitted by i.am.the.prophet.at.gmail.com (View user info) at 2005-03-06 22:03:19 EST
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in 100 years the french language will be dead. look at the languages spoken around the world now, english is without a doubt the most common. sure, mandarin is spoken by more people, but it is almost exclusively spoken in china. there are more people studying english as a second language in china than there are speaking english as a first language in the states. throughout europe, many people speak english as a second language. in germany, italy, spain, switzerland, they speak their own languages, and most of the people (especially the younger ones) speak english too. look at french: they mostly only speak it in france and some countries in africa. there are only 129,000,000 french speakers in the world. and even in france english is common. it's become almost an international fad to be able to speak english. if you're travelling in europe, english is the best language to be speaking.
why am i talking about french? because i live in a place where there are quite a few french speakers. and it's not that i don't like them, or the language (girls who speak french give me a raging erection) it's just that i don't believe that it will last much longer. if you look at the french canadians, they're having problems with assimilation. in many schools across quebec, being caught speaking english is punished by detention, to encourage kids to speak french. in louisiana, they don't even speak french. that's a hybrid, a patois. same thing in the eastern provinces of canada. the acadians do not speak french, they speak chiaque, a kind of franglais.
my point is that french will be dead soon, and there is no point trying to resist it. so all of you frenchies out there, get used to speaking english, because you'll be doing more and more of it.
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Submitted by herbman (user info) at 2005-11-15 20:16:36 EST (#)
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Piscine, shlongeater, piscine.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-11-07 17:19:26 EST (#)
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Ou est Sylvie?
Au lycee?
Ou est Phillippe?
A la piscene.
Avec qui?
Avec Anne.
Asshole.
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-11-07 16:54:27 EST (#)
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fuque le French
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-07 15:38:02 EST (#)
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bad typing on my part...and it's still better than this post.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-07 15:37:32 EST (#)
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Ou est Sylvie?
Au lycee.
Ou est Phillippe?
A la piscene.
Avec qui?
Aven Anne.
Noy "fuck a tu".
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-07 15:29:48 EST (#)
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Mostly because so much of Western economy relies on the internet, banks, credit card companies, communications, the stock market.
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That sentence makes it sound like I was listing what the economy relies on. The banks, credit card companies and the stock market were examples of things that rely on the internet.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-07 15:23:45 EST (#)
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Mostly because so much of Western economy relies on the internet, banks, credit card companies, communications, the stock market. Think of how much people rely on instant transfer of information, companies need things on time, and since many important companies are entirely based on the internet, it would be chaos. Not an apocolypse, but too many people would see it as such. Think of where you work. What would happen if suddenly the internet was no longer available? I don't know what you do, but your last post showed that you work in an office building, and chances are you use the internet a fair amount at work. The web isn't oxygen, people don't need it, but people are stupid and would panic like maniacs if they lost the internet. Remember, I was baked on weed when I thought of this.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:49:48 EST (#)
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G-Prime, how is the crash of the Internet a techological apocalypse?
The web isn't oxygen.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:35:39 EST (#)
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I disagree.
Behind English, French is the second-most-common official national language of nations in the world. That's not going to change much.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:22:06 EST (#)
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I have a theory about this century. Something big is about to happen. Something huge. Einstein said "I do not know with which weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones." this is talking about the technological apocolypse. Something is going to happen, like the crash of the internet or something similarly huge (like my dick), and after that there will be many years like the dark ages, with no technology and since english will have been the most common language, that will be used as the basic language used to rebuild the world with.
I don't know how much sense this makes, as I was high when I thought of it, but even sober some of the points sound about right.
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 10:53:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-07 07:29:43 (#)
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Submitted by Ivy (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:23:33 (#)
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Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:20:23 (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:24:26 (#)
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i
love
paris in the
the springtime
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Why did you write "the" twice?
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That's a sneaky optcial illusion. I wonder if it was done on purpose?
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Aye, it was.
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Yeah, I was being a silly boy.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2005-03-07 09:41:19 EST (#)
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You are right, and wrong.
Where you are right is that french will disappear sooner or later in Canada (I'm french-canadian) eventually. With communications growing constantly, french is no match for english on the North American continent.
Where you are wrong is that french will completly disappear in Europe. Look at this way. The french canadian asimilation has been predicted to happen a lot sooner. Way back to Lord Durahm's Report. But we've managed to resist quite a bit and in a way, gain some ground (french is on the rise in Montreal). And we were only a few at the beginning. If you apply the same scenario to France, which are quite a few, I doubt it'll take only a century to erradicate french. Plus, the french are A LOT more proud than us, a conquered population that has began to stand for itself only in the last recent decades.
I'd also like to point out that a lot of things can happen in a 100 years. Look at the 20th century and the shift of powers. Maybe the anglosphere won't be as influent. Maybe we'll both need to learn mandarin. Hell, the world could be lead by Burkina Faso by then. Who the fuck knows what will happen.
I hope I made some sense. This cold I have renders my brain numb...and it's Monday.
L'accent des acadiennes titillent mon pénis sévèrement.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-07 07:29:43 EST (#)
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Submitted by Ivy (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:23:33 (#)
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Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:20:23 (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:24:26 (#)
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i
love
paris in the
the springtime
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Why did you write "the" twice?
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That's a sneaky optcial illusion. I wonder if it was done on purpose?
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Aye, it was.
Submitted by Ivy (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:23:33 EST (#)
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Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:20:23 (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:24:26 (#)
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i
love
paris in the
the springtime
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Why did you write "the" twice?
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That's a sneaky optcial illusion. I wonder if it was done on purpose?
Submitted by Ivy (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:22:32 EST (#)
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Some Franglais speaker must have written that cartoon.
I love French, I love France, French people are fine, French Canada gave me poutine. What else could I ask for?
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 06:20:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:24:26 (#)
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i
love
paris in the
the springtime
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Why did you write "the" twice?
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2005-03-07 05:47:48 EST (#)
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Yeah, in Vancouver we do that to the french-immersion kids. The chinese/korean/vietnamese kids get called out for not speaking english. I get called out for teaching the esl kids to say "gay" instead of happy and "fuck off, pigdick" instead of "good morning, teacher".
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-03-07 05:39:24 EST (#)
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Yeah, he's saying that, but the past tense is all fucked up.
Unless it's something I haven't seen before.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-03-07 05:37:42 EST (#)
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Non, je ne suis pas d'accord. Avec les autres langues, peut-etre. Mais les francais sont tres, tres fier de ses langue. Pour decourager l'emploi du "franglais", il y a un commission official qui cree un nouveau mot francais pour chaque nouvea mots anglais de technologie, quand les autres pays permissent leur citoyens parler de "le silicon-chip" et "le webpage".
Tout de ca etait faux. J'ecris dans francais pour practicer, parce que je n'ai pas l'emploi pour troi ou quatre mois. Mon dieux, c'est terrible.
Submitted by DamianD (user info) at 2005-03-07 05:34:55 EST (#)
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Well, it really does go without saying. Most of the romance languages are long dead and spoke only by minimal amounts of people
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-03-07 02:29:17 EST (#)
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Quality indeed. Work on the quantity and you're there with +2s on.
I love Paris in the the springtime, too.
Submitted by rollerboognish (user info) at 2005-03-07 02:22:36 EST (#)
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Am i wrong, or is he saying, "I want to have been loved by your monkey"?
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:34:43 EST (#)
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Not a bad little snippet, work on form and beef it up and this could be a +2.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:24:26 EST (#)
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i
love
paris in the
the springtime
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:21:55 EST (#)
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You're probably right.
Unfortunately.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 22:10:52 EST (#)
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