To: SunkenCiv
If the author's premise is true, why didn't the French language spoken by the elites become the national language in Britain?
5 posted on
10/17/2004 1:21:04 PM PDT by
curmudgeonII
(If you listen you can hear the sound of the train that Kerry missed.)
To: curmudgeonII
For the answer to that question I recommend "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.
Europe spoke French as it now speaks English. The French tide crested in Moscow. Trafalgar ment it never crossed the Channel.
10 posted on
10/17/2004 2:22:46 PM PDT by
bert
(Peace is only halftime !)
To: curmudgeonII
It did, in part, through loanwords.
15 posted on
10/17/2004 5:01:41 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
To: curmudgeonII
Just a word of advice if you ever go to Paris. 'Chapeau' means hat. 'Oof' means egg. It's like those French have a different word for everything.
27 posted on
10/18/2004 7:06:07 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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