Richmond, Merci pour ces périgrinations culturo-linguistiques ! Bon souvenir de Paris René
Le 10 avr. 2010 à 12:25, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > On 10/04/2010 12:50, René Micout wrote: >> I love the Richmond's moods (or rant) ! ;-) >> But for a no-english person (like me) it is very difficult to understand >> (ans really appreciate !) ;-) + ;-) >> René >> > You probably don't understand everything I have written exactly > because I am NOT completely English either . . . :) > > From time to time, for strictly 'stylistic' reasons, I drop into Scots; > a language misunderstood by the English, even described as an > "uncouth dialect of English"; which is funny since our Kings spoke it. > > I have the benefits of an English Private School education, and an English > University education, coupled with many summers' farm work in > parts of Scotland where Doric Scots still survives. This allows me to > "code switch" between 'High English' and Scots all the way up and > down what linguists call a dialect continuum. C'est trop facile pour > moi . . . :) > > Francophones might like to think "Gascon" and "Occitan" before > assuming that because I carry a British passport that automatically > means that I am either wholly or partly English. > > A quick 'owersettan' follows: > > "but Ah jalouse naebody's clappin their gully lugs til ma scrievins" > > But, I suppose nobody is listening with their big ears to my messages. > > Francophones might like to meditate on the origins of the word 'jalouse', > > and Latin scholars might like to meditate on the origins of the word > 'scrieve'; > > Anglo-Saxon scholars will have to put up with 'lugs'. > > Spoken languages are rather like RevTalk (err . . . is that the current > name?); > one can ring the changes and achieve wonderful effects: because RevTalk > (unlike an awful lot of computer languages) is quite flexible and extensible, > rather like human languages. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution