From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T21:13:11+09:00
Subject: Re: downcase part of a string

On 10/25/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't be surprised if the French sometimes sneered a little at
> the French spoken in Quebec, the way (sometimes) Brits make fun of
> Americans, or Spanish (or Colombians) make fun of Mexicans.

And, I understand that there are some Qu�be�ois who maintain that they
speak a purer form of French than the European French do.  It's kind
of like the theory that Elizabethan English is still spoken on some of
the islands off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina.

Actually both French and Canadian French have evolved in different
ways, much as have British and American English.

Some Qu�be�ois think of themselves as French, hence the "European
French" above.  I have a good friend, a native ni�oise, who was quite
amused when she was in Canada and some one said to her, "so you're
French, from France!"  to which her unspoken reaction was "Where
else?"

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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