French: Les Rectifications de 1990
- Thread starter Clemens
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I still use the old spellings, even though I understand the logic of the changes, just because that's what I'm used to.
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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I didn't know about them. Is it just selected circumflexes that have been banished?
There are many changes, one of which is the removal of the circumflex from i and u, except where needed to distinguish homographs, or in the passé simple or imperfect subjunctive.
Other changes include making the use of é and è match (French) pronunciation better, regularizing compound nouns and their plurals, changing how the tréma works and expanding its use, and making more verbs behave like acheter rather than appeler.
Other changes include making the use of é and è match (French) pronunciation better, regularizing compound nouns and their plurals, changing how the tréma works and expanding its use, and making more verbs behave like acheter rather than appeler.
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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I wouldn't dream of using the passé simple, with or without circumflexes, and try to avoid subjunctives of any sort in that language.
The imperfect subjunctive certainly, but the present and past are in everyday use.
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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Je ne doute pas qu'ils soient omniprésents.
See, you can do it!
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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I doubt it. I'd be surprised if there weren't multiple mistakes in that sentence.
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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Surely my accent was a crime against the French language.