(October 10, 2015 at 4:18 pm)MTL Wrote:(October 10, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I can understand making a big deal out of such things. Without the proper accents, it is wrong. Imagine if someone typed words in English, but did not use English letters all of the time, but sometimes used letters that only somewhat resembled the correct letters. Like imagine the letter "n" without the first vertical stroke. It would not look right, and it would likely annoy most native English speakers, even though it would not thereby look like some other letter leading to confusion.but look at how we bastardize english.
Night .. Nite
Drive-Through .... Drive-Thru
Even the American spellings of certain words, like "honor" is less British than the Canadian "honour", etc
and nowadays, we replace whole sentences with a few letters, as in text messaging,
and it has become positively trendy to replace certain letters with numbers, like in the movie,
"Se7en"
or "5ive"
and consider the trademark backwards "N" in the Nine Inch Nails logo:
...not to mention how drastically I hear english changed in modern American TV, movies and music:
" Where you at? "
" He disrespected me " etc
and most North Americans are completely oblivious to the fact that we are, as a continent, almost entirely pronouncing "aluminium" incorrectly. Listen again to Evie's Accent Tag video if you don't believe me, and listen to how an Englishman pronounces it.
We don't even SPELL it correctly, here. We leave out an "i"
AluminIum
Aluminum
That was sort of my point. I'm an American, only half-Cajun in the first place, but even my full-blooded relatives don't bother with accent marks except in places where the distinct sound difference makes a distinct difference in the meaning of two identically-spelled words. Our language was deliberately wiped out by the American Anglophones, and what remains is heavily bastardized in the first place-- we'll throw words from English, Spanish, and even some Native American phrases in the middle of a French sentence, if going at full speed, when speaking aloud.
Cajun culture has a lot of things that are "traditional", but language is just a tool, to us.
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