Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words
by emiliovesprini on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:43PM
(#22219658)
> This rampant prescriptivism
really threw me off when learning French.
I went
from the mostly benign and spelling-only prescriptivism of Spanish
to the complete and utter anarchy that is English
to this weird situation French is in where it's the worst of both worlds:
it has
all of the rules and all of the exceptions.
In some situations
following all of the rules
('course a pied' over 'running' type stuff)
will make you positively odd,
and in others
ignoring some specific rules makes you sound uncultured.
really threw me off when learning French. I went from the mostly benign and spelling-only prescriptivism of Spanish to the complete and utter anarchy that is English to this weird situation French is in where it's the worst of both worlds: it has all of the rules and all of the exceptions.
In some situations following all of the rules ('course a pied' over 'running' type stuff) will make you positively odd, and in others ignoring some specific rules makes you sound uncultured.