French accent

On 24 May 2005 07:55:21 -0700, "kyrha" wrote:

Hi everybody
I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent
Thank you for your answers

It is a permanent fixture that you can do nothing about. There is not
a frog on earth that has successfully removed their distinct accent.

It's pleasant sounding, but for people that don't like the French,
they will find it repugnant.
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kyrha writes:

I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent

A slight French accent in English can be charming. A thick accent,
particularly one that interferes with comprehension, can be annoying.
So can idiosyncratic errors in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary.

Different French speakers manifest their French accents in slightly
different ways. Some types are more aesthetic than others.

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Actually, I am under the impression that a huge percentage of these people
that have French as their native language *intentionally* make their accents
more pronounced. They think their language is so cool and there was a time
in this country, when having that French accent made you more popular with
the opposite sex. But maybe that was a time that has come and gone and
nowadays, it may no longer hold true due to the tension between French and
Americans.

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... Hi everybody
... I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent
... Thank you for your answers
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... I'm very fond of this one ´
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"Magda" a écrit dans le message de news:
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:41:23 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, nitram
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some electrons, so they looked like this :

... On Tue, 24 May 2005 17:29:41 +0100,
... (chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
... wrote:
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... nitram wrote:
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... On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:10:52 +0100,

... (chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
... wrote:
...
... kyrha wrote:
...
... Hi everybody
... I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent
... Thank you for your answers
...
... I'm very fond of this one ´
...
... sometimes I'm more in the mood for this one though `
...
... this is a grave situation.
...
... It's an acute problem.
...
... We'll be back to discussing Mgada's misheard acute angina next.

Arrête d'écorcher mon nom, tu veux ??

"kyrha" a écrit dans le message de news:
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Hi everybody
I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent

It makes the French language much easier to understand...

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On Tue, 24 May 2005 20:23:56 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "punktilious"
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... Actually, I am under the impression that a huge percentage of these people
... that have French as their native language *intentionally* make their accents
... more pronounced.

No, they just don't care about pronouncing foreign words properly.

I don't believe that is generally true.

Many cannot pronounce certain foreign words easily, and don't try very
hard. Much as I do with French.

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kyrha wrote:

Hi everybody
I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent
Thank you for your answers

It's an acute problem.

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punktilious writes:

Actually, I am under the impression that a huge percentage of these people
that have French as their native language *intentionally* make their accents
more pronounced.

Some do, most don't.

A more common situation is that French people consider their language
part of their identity, and so they refuse to abandon their accent
("linguistic ego"). Quite a few French speakers have this problem.

They think their language is so cool and there was a time
in this country, when having that French accent made you more popular with
the opposite sex. But maybe that was a time that has come and gone and
nowadays, it may no longer hold true due to the tension between French and
Americans.

That tension is very temporary, and it's also one-way.

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Deep Foiled Malls writes:

It is a permanent fixture that you can do nothing about. There is not
a frog on earth that has successfully removed their distinct accent.

I work with several who have.

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On 24 May 2005 07:55:21 -0700, "kyrha" wrote:

Hi everybody
I'm french and I'd like to know your opinion about french accent
Thank you for your answers

Women with French accents sound terrific and sexy. Men with French
accents sound like putzes.

- TR
- my first time ever use of "putz" in the plural.