Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:54 PM 9/4/03 -0600, John Collier wrote: >French Albertans speak "Franco-Albertan". All of these dialects are >closely related to what was spoken in Brittany a long time ago. Present >local Briton dialects are more closely related to Quebecois and >Franco-Albertan than they are to Parisian French. ====================== This was a mistake the British made during the Second World War, as well. Quebec infiltrators were immediate captured in Brittany as their language, though intelligible, sounded horrid in thei ears of the locals. Seeing them wince, their German guards arrested the French Canadians and shot them. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html