How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by cassepipe on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:38PM (#38677161)

I'd say that's one of the worst thing in French : The gap between written and spoken is so much bigger than say spanish which I think makes it hard for foreigners.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by bsaul on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:36PM (#38677553)

i'd say the problem is mainly the inability of young generation to be able to write and speak proper french.

Speaking slang is fun and everybody's been doing it forever. However being only able to speak slang is a problem.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by Toutouxc on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:26PM (#38678266)

> the inability of young generation to be able to write and speak proper french

The language isn’t going to stop evolving just because you were born.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by bsaul on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:49AM (#38710669)

there's evolving and there's devolving. As in loss of precision in the grammar and in the vocabulary.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by fknorangesite on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:29PM (#38677898)

Gosh I know, right? Kids these days!

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