What's wrong with saying I'm American?

[Deuxtete]

Our similar institution isn't intransigent to the point of petty resistance to the notion that French is not God's gift to spoken word.

I don't see the problem with preserving one of the most beautiful language of the world of foreign influence which may denature it.

Beeautiful is kind of subjective.
I do agree with concept of preserving language as its integral to preserving culture.

[Immoren]

Our similar institution isn't intransigent to the point of petty resistance to the notion that French is not God's gift to spoken word.

I don't see the problem with preserving one of the most beautiful language of the world of foreign influence which may denature it.

Don Quixote and the Windmills.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Our similar institution isn't intransigent to the point of petty resistance to the notion that French is not God's gift to spoken word.

I don't see the problem with preserving one of the most beautiful language of the world of foreign influence which may denature it.

I don't see what's wrong with the opposite.

[Aelex]

I don't see the problem with preserving one of the most beautiful language of the world of foreign influence which may denature it.

I don't see what's wrong with the opposite.

Then you're really dense. Or just don't care about neither your language nor culture. Anyway, the Académie Française did it's job greatly as the English language don't managed to influence French more than by adding a few words (which ironically came for most part from French originally) and idiomes mostly used by youngs and wanna-be hispters.

[Aelex]

Beeautiful is kind of subjective.
I do agree with concept of preserving language as its integral to preserving culture.

Subjective to some point. French is indeed recognized as both the language of Romance, Culture and Diplomacy.

[Imperializt Russia]

Our similar institution isn't intransigent to the point of petty resistance to the notion that French is not God's gift to spoken word.

I don't see the problem with preserving one of the most beautiful language of the world of foreign influence which may denature it.

Because it's petty denial of how language works.

[Stellonia]

Why are we discussing Romantic languages?

[The Empire of Pretantia]

I don't see what's wrong with the opposite.

Then you're really dense. Or just don't care about neither your language nor culture.

Why should I?

Besides, caring about your language or culture does not necessarily include instituting things to preserve language or culture.

Anyway, the Académie Française did it's job greatly as the English language don't managed to influence French more than by adding a few words (which ironically came for most part from French originally) and idiomes mostly used by youngs and wanna-be hispters.

It's good that they keep the master language unmolested by degenerates.

[Immoren]

Why are we discussing Romantic languages?

That's what usually happens on NSG.

[Deuxtete]

Beeautiful is kind of subjective.
I do agree with concept of preserving language as its integral to preserving culture.

Subjective to some point. French is indeed recognized as both the language of Romance, Culture and Diplomacy.

It's the ugliest of the romance languages to my ear, subjective.
I don't think French or France when I think culture...I know the French do, they've been hard selling that schtick since forever.

Diplomacy, I can't comment. International business, I'm expecting German.

That being said, I respect the immutable French arrogance about their culture, its where Americans got their immutable arrogance about ours.
I find people who lack such a passion to be dull.

[Rio Cana]

Why are we discussing Romantic languages?

Maybe because its fun.

Or maybe because the Romance languages rule!

[Aelex]

Because it's petty denial of how language works.

Not so much. Language changes are either caused by conquest (which is the reason why 45% of english word come from french), by exchange between neighbooring country or, more modernly, by the influence of mass culture.
Since English failed to conquer France since a long time and that you're an Island, two of the reason which may cause English to influence French are caducs. It's to avoid the last one that the Académie Française regulate the number of American T.V show and impose French ones. It has the double advantage of sparing us from most of your shit like the Prince of Bel-Air or Dallas while in the same time keeping running our own T.V industry which create a lot of good show like "Kaamelot", "Scène de Ménage", "Un Gars, Une Fille" or "Caméra Café".

[Actan]

I don't see what's wrong with the opposite.

Then you're really dense. Or just don't care about neither your language nor culture. Anyway, the Académie Française did it's job greatly as the English language don't managed to influence French more than by adding a few words (which ironically came for most part from French originally) and idiomes mostly used by youngs and wanna-be hispters.

No, English just managed to completely replace French as, hilariously, the lingua franca.

[Aelex]

Besides, caring about your language or culture does not necessarily include instituting things to preserve language or culture..

It did actually. Because if you're willing to throw away or let degenerate your own language and culture for no real reasons, then you simply didn't cared about it.

[Stellonia]

Why are we discussing Romantic languages?

Maybe because its fun.

Or maybe because the Romance languages rule!

I find that to be rather strange, given that there is no major thread to discuss Romance languages.

Then you're really dense. Or just don't care about neither your language nor culture. Anyway, the Académie Française did it's job greatly as the English language don't managed to influence French more than by adding a few words (which ironically came for most part from French originally) and idiomes mostly used by youngs and wanna-be hispters.

No, English just managed to completely replace French as, hilariously, the lingua franca.

What irony!

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Because it's petty denial of how language works.

Not so much. Language changes are either caused by conquest (which is the reason why 45% of english word come from french), by exchange between neighbooring country or, more modernly, by the influence of mass culture.
Since English failed to conquer France since a long time and that you're an Island, two of the reason which may cause English to influence French are caducs. It's to avoid the last one that the Académie Française regulate the number of American T.V show and impose French ones. It has the double advantage of sparing us from most of your shit like the Prince of Bel-Air or Dallas while in the same time keeping running our own T.V industry which create a lot of good show like "Kaamelot", "Scène de Ménage", "Un Gars, Une Fille" or "Caméra Café".

I'm not surprised I haven't heard of those. Probably because they're not worth exporting like Fresh Prince is.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Besides, caring about your language or culture does not necessarily include instituting things to preserve language or culture..

It did actually. Because if you're willing to throw away or let degenerate your own language and culture for no real reasons, then you simply didn't cared about it.

We don't care about it changing. Doesn't mean we don't care at all.

[Est du Canada]

as a Canadian i don't think there anything wrong with it

[Immoren]

Besides, caring about your language or culture does not necessarily include instituting things to preserve language or culture..

It did actually. Because if you're willing to throw away or let degenerate your own language and culture for no real reasons, then you simply didn't cared about it.

Change is part of the life. Everything has its time and everything dies.
*nods*

[The Empire of Pretantia]

It did actually. Because if you're willing to throw away or let degenerate your own language and culture for no real reasons, then you simply didn't cared about it.

Change is part of the life. Everything has its time and everything dies.
*nods*

Not I. I'm immortal. What!

[Calimera II]

We could always annex North and South America and that issue would vanish .

gross

Bye bye Sam. >:v

[Australian rePublic]

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=america ... nt%20&sm=1
I hope this video answers your question

[Aelex]

I'm not surprised I haven't heard of those. Probably because they're not worth exporting like Fresh Prince is.

The fact that you could consider the freah prince as "worth exporting" kinda make me sad for you since you don't have the chance to know what GOOD t.v show are.
Anyway, the reasons of why you didn't heard about them are multiple.
For Kaamelot, Alexandre Astier the author of the show who is for me litteraly Molière reborn, refused to sell the right of distribution and of adaption of the show to other's country's T.V because he known that translating it would completly ruin his work.
However this case is pretty rare if not unique. A lot of other successful french T.V show (like Caméra Café and Un Gars, Une fille) sell their rights of adaption all around the world so you might have saw their localized version.
The real reason of why you didn't heard of them is simply that 1)France don't dominate the mass culture itself even if we are still highly present in both litterature and cinema and 2)French is a complex and meaningfull language and thus is horrible to translate to and even harder to translate from.

[Calimera II]

I'm not surprised I haven't heard of those. Probably because they're not worth exporting like Fresh Prince is.

The fact that you could consider the freah prince as "worth exporting" kinda make me sad for you since you don't have the chance to know what GOOD t.v show are.
Anyway, the reasons of why you didn't heard about them are multiple.
For Kaamelot, Alexandre Astier the author of the show who is for me litteraly Molière reborn, refused to sell the right of distribution and of adaption of the show to other's country's T.V because he known that translating it would completly ruin his work.
However this case is pretty rare if not unique. A lot of other successful french T.V show (like Caméra Café and Un Gars, Une fille) sell their rights of adaption all around the world so you might have saw their localized version.
The real reason of why you didn't heard of them is simply that 1)France don't dominate the mass culture itself even if we are still highly present in both litterature and cinema and 2)French is a complex and meaningfull language and thus is horrible to translate to and even harder to translate from.

I didn't know you were a cultural supremacist.

[Actan]

2)French is a complex and meaningfull language and thus is horrible to translate to and even harder to translate from.

French really isn't that special, Aelex. It is no more "meaningful" or complex than any other Latin language, or really any language, and the job of translators is not to literally put down the word-to-word translation but to convey the similar statement but in the native language the art is taking place in. It happens all the time with every country. The reason why France doesn't is because it simply isn't as culturally powerful on the world stage as the US and Britain.