Simplifying French Spelling Denigrates The Most Beautiful Language In The World
Simplifying French spelling denigrates the most beautiful language in the world. Recently, the French government declared that starting September, 2016, children are going to learn spelling in a new way by modifying the spelling rules. In order to save the French language, many people have been using the hashtag #JeSuisCirconflexe on Facebook and #ReformeOrthographe on Twitter over the past several days to communicate their dissatisfaction with the new reform. By removing letters, hyphens, circumflex and other spelling subtleties, many sentences will lose their sense. For example, “I’m sure your sister is fine” becomes “I’m on your sister, she is fine.” Also “a mature man” will become “a wall man.” Even beyond these silly results, French people
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Language is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its users. Language changes from a generation to another because things changed. For example, at the time of my grand parents or even my parents, technology was so little that there were nothing to interfere the language. Nowadays, texting changed the way of writing such and such words so the way of spelling words is also changing the same way. People who immigrate in another country where the language is different create their own words. This is for that reason that a lot of french words are borrow to the english language. The language also changes because of social groups who Social groups adopt distinctive norms of dress and gesture but also language. The distinction in language can be such as comprehension like slang or jargon, or pronunciation. Through repetition of certain words, this can be conventionalized and repeated by others people. People will have a better reaction if the change come from them instead of coming from the …show more content…
French children will be taught the new spellings but they will also learn the old spellings from their elders. People who already speak and write French are not going to change their way to write words. The problem is that parents will always train their children to get the right spelling from the old spelling because it’s more proper and is recognizable everywhere. Class division could arise because poorer parents and immigrant parents will not be as able to teach their children the old spellings. Using the old spellings may become a sign of elite
Language is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its users. Language changes from a generation to another because things changed. For example, at the time of my grand parents or even my parents, technology was so little that there were nothing to interfere the language. Nowadays, texting changed the way of writing such and such words so the way of spelling words is also changing the same way. People who immigrate in another country where the language is different create their own words. This is for that reason that a lot of french words are borrow to the english language. The language also changes because of social groups who Social groups adopt distinctive norms of dress and gesture but also language. The distinction in language can be such as comprehension like slang or jargon, or pronunciation. Through repetition of certain words, this can be conventionalized and repeated by others people. People will have a better reaction if the change come from them instead of coming from the …show more content…
French children will be taught the new spellings but they will also learn the old spellings from their elders. People who already speak and write French are not going to change their way to write words. The problem is that parents will always train their children to get the right spelling from the old spelling because it’s more proper and is recognizable everywhere. Class division could arise because poorer parents and immigrant parents will not be as able to teach their children the old spellings. Using the old spellings may become a sign of elite