May. 22nd, 2019 12:20 pm
A pocket of glossophiles
I miss posting about languages and linguistics here. I met so many people back in the day through those conversations, several of which are still friends. Yesterday I met another because ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
itchwoot introduced me to a good friend of his who graciously agreed to meet me for coffee where we geeked out over code-switching and such for a couple hours. It fired him up to launch a discussion group on FB he'd been mulling and now I'm having the conversations there that I used to come here for.
It's a small group, as much Francophone as Anglophone, and the first discussion was mainly in French. It was a discussion of code-switching, which was something much on my new friend's mind as he's been travelling in the Anglosphere for over two weeks and is getting weary of speaking English. It's his native tongue, but his partner is a rebeu and their common language is French.
While we were talking face-to-face, I noticed rhotacism in his speech and thought perhaps it was the result of spending too much time with Americans. Nope: although he previously lived in London, he's native of Plymouth. He said he's very consciously tried not to lose his West Country accent (unlike his brother, who had it mocked out of him after only a couple years as a copper in London) but apart from his coda r's, I don't really hear any traces.
Two members of the groups are partners in an alliance franco-américaine living in--of all places--small-town Kansas. The French half has studied Welsh, Gaelic, and who knows what else. Today we chatted about Caddoan and Siouan phonology. I hope this keeps up.
itchwoot introduced me to a good friend of his who graciously agreed to meet me for coffee where we geeked out over code-switching and such for a couple hours. It fired him up to launch a discussion group on FB he'd been mulling and now I'm having the conversations there that I used to come here for.It's a small group, as much Francophone as Anglophone, and the first discussion was mainly in French. It was a discussion of code-switching, which was something much on my new friend's mind as he's been travelling in the Anglosphere for over two weeks and is getting weary of speaking English. It's his native tongue, but his partner is a rebeu and their common language is French.
While we were talking face-to-face, I noticed rhotacism in his speech and thought perhaps it was the result of spending too much time with Americans. Nope: although he previously lived in London, he's native of Plymouth. He said he's very consciously tried not to lose his West Country accent (unlike his brother, who had it mocked out of him after only a couple years as a copper in London) but apart from his coda r's, I don't really hear any traces.
Two members of the groups are partners in an alliance franco-américaine living in--of all places--small-town Kansas. The French half has studied Welsh, Gaelic, and who knows what else. Today we chatted about Caddoan and Siouan phonology. I hope this keeps up.
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