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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm a European who visits Houston from time to time. And once I had this Uber driver who was very interested in European history. We talked about how the various European languages related to each other, and he said something that makes France make sense: "French is the result og Germanic people trying to speak Latin"

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But French started as celts (Gauls) trying to speak Latin, the germanic influence on it came later through the Franks.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Maybe he said Gauls and I remember it incorrectly.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We could have had the langue d’Oc.

Instead the parisians forced the langue d’Oïl (modern french) upon us.

Dark History

technically this is due to cultural genocide by the french government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha