Re: Time travelers - proving your origin

David Tate wrote:

If anyone has a Norman French passage of comparable length, I'd be
happy to test myself against it -- who knows but that I'd do just as
badly there.


Modern written French is a few centuries behind colloquial oral French
in pronunciation and grammar. If the language were written as it is
currently spoken, it would be much less like Norman French.

--
'It is a wise crow that knows which way the camel points' - Pratchett
Robert Shaw
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