- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:01:23 -0400
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, www-style@w3.org
2011/4/8 John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>: > I consider it a myth -- in the sense of a widely held but unsubstantiated > belief -- that this practice is 'correct', which is what I heard from > various French people over the years. The extended form of the myth is that > this is correct practice in France but not in Quebec, and I met people who > had been taught this as a rule. > > Yes, 'real native speakers' behave mythologically. :) I suggest that you take a look at the book “La cyberl@ngue française”. That book is a real eye opener to me. Maybe this is just a case of being prescriptive vs being descriptive. :-) -- cheers, -ambrose my thoughts on HTML5: http://goo.gl/vhv5F + http://goo.gl/leonq (thanks and no thanks)
Received on Friday, 8 April 2011 18:01:52 UTC