Reform French

Maybe first by accepting it on Prog Archives  Seriously, i don't know if yourself are french speaking, but here in Paris we're right in the middle of a debate about the feminisation of terms. Solutions offered by la Mairie de Paris (city hall...) are quite counter intuitive to say the least, that said by a "Homme rose québécois" (what one would descript as hetero male quite sympathethic to feminism cause and acting in such a way in his everyday life...) for whom complexifying an already very difficult and subtle language is  not a good idea. True that french may be the language of diplomacy, as english with his directness and "to the point" efficiency is the language of business. Aside of that, there  is for years now  some debate on matters of simplifying it, ortograph reform , etc. This may be caused by the afflux of migrants in France for which, apart of the real traumatism of the conditions in which they arrive here, the apprenticeship of a difficult language is further cause of difficulties.

I studied French and although i don't speak it well, i can read it pretty good. Personally i don't think any language with too many funny markings over the vowels should be lingua franca. English is a bitch in many ways but at least we don't have to memorize random genders for nouns and have crazy things like á ç ê í œ ü

chopper wrote: Why does it need "reforming" (whatever that means)?

^^ I read somewhere that members of the francophone transgender community now demand to be referred as "iel". As far as it's a polite request I have no problem but some consider trying to apply it legislatively (don't ask me how) and regulating the way people think and talk is not right.

Now this is turning to a post where french speaking adress one to the other in a second learned language , saying mostly that english is still easier!

^^ Yeah I forgot to mention that although I think English is far more practical, French is more poetic and expressive imo.

Edited by Larkstongue41 - December 05 2017 at 09:28

bertolino wrote: This is a fine statement about the contemporary issues , concerning the feminisation of terms in our mother tongue, this being said by a former quebecois to another one. As long as you consider that the initial question on this post had that issue in sight! I can't miss your opening statement  refering to religious wars of days long gone  as this is almost turning to modern schism.  As ever , right on the spot Mr Chantraine, from a silent follower, for years on Prog Archives, and hopefully as long in the future.

This is almost embarrassing .... Some could think it's me creating a double membership, just to laud myself as a the world saviour.

Edited by Sean Trane - December 05 2017 at 10:12