parochial boy
parochial_boy
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 27, 2021, 08:12:50 AM » |
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If this was a thing that happened then you would have expected Swiss French to have died out decades ago, seeing as it is culturally swamped and demographically outweighed 40 to 1 by the larger neighbour. If anything people are tending to use régionalisms more and more, in particular as a sort of identitarian backlash against the perceived domination of the French. But even then, I still semi-regularly discover that there are words or phrases that I use that the French don’t understand at all, and certain linguistic developments have happened in Swiss French (the disappearance of the schwa for example) unintentionally and without any real input from the French.
In any case these things are complicated because there clearly are influences. For example the rolled R has basically disappeared from Québécois French and been replaced by the European guttural one. Even while other differences have been maintained or even newly emerged. Similar with English, eg even in the UK a billion now basically means am American billion; but the word soccer has almost died out, even when it was in regular use 30-40 years ago.
Tldr these things are complicated, yes you have an influence but as long as linguistic communities live in different places and mostly interact inside of those communities you will maintain distinct regional ways of speak. At the end of the day people are just complaining that they don’t like the fact that languages change just like they always have done.
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