>France spend hundreds of years, if not a millennium, trying to conquer England >they managed to pollute the English language with redundant vocabulary, but not displace the core grammar >having failed, they spread French to blacks in Africa
Is there a story more pathetic than this? Now those Francophone blacks are moving to France, making Paris unrecognizable. England had the sense to genocide natives in Australia, North America, and South Africa.
>south africa >india >pakistan >Australia >new zealand >everything west of ohio OHNONONONO
Cameron Reyes
yea your made up bait thread is worse
Matthew Morris
We're talking about language you uneducated frick. As shitty as India and Pakistan are, they have not affected English in any influential way.
Zachary Stewart
>trying to conquer England >trying Huh...?
Mason Perez
Your post was O.K. but I must call out bullshit lies when I see them.
Xavier Long
>1066 William the Conquerer: success >Wars of the Roses : fighting over Aquitaine, Gascon, etc. : failure
Let's be frank (lel) about history here, you created an indomitable beast. Thankfully that mad dog has been on your side on the important sides of history, in particular destroying Germany when you could not.
Samuel Flores
+Hundred Years War on top of that
You conquered Britain to get cucked out of your own territory by rebels. Was it worth it?
Josiah Campbell
>>Wars of the Roses : fighting over Aquitaine, Gascon Are you mistaken? By the time of the War of the Roses transpiring, Guyenne and Gascony had already been brought back under the fold of French authority. Remember, it was a follow-up to the HYW. Anyways think there was the war of Barons were France also successively got involved in English affairs.
>your own territory by rebels. Worth it? Well no... But I don't see why you think French policy has always been to invade Britain. If anything we let William and French houses do it because whatever, but it's not that was to do with French monarchy scheming for it. > in particular destroying Germany when you could not. >France wins WWI with some British help (after all, they held 10% of the front, so yeah... but were also heavily involved elsewhere) >don't let us destroy it or at least weaken it >" destroying Germany when you could not." ...
Jacob Bailey
>Are you mistaken? By the time of the War of the Roses transpiring, Yes, I should have mentioned 100Y war first, but I am drunk on whiskey (sorry, I like cognac too)
>Well no... But I don't see why you think French policy has always been to invade Britain. French policy from 1810+ onward was to choke Britain out of trade, which culminated in the Continental System under Napoleon. As Americans have been taught it, Napoleon wished to invade fellow European countries if they did not adopt the trade embargo against Britain. This worked all the way until Russia. The continental system was borne of intense hatred toward the British since the 100Y war.
I can't blame you for that necessarily, but then again we went to war with you against the British in 1770s and forgave them in the 1810s. This is even shorter than the 100Y war.
>" destroying Germany when you could not." You lost the Franco-Prussian War, which lost control of the Rhine. Then you won WW1 and wanted the Treaty of Versailles to be extremely punitive toward Germany. Our president Wilson argued against that, but the agreement leaned toward your side. Hitler rose to power and invaded you again due to the occupation of the Rhine and hyperinflated Weimar mark. Is this not true? Britain came to your aid both times, regardless, and we did too after Germany attacked us. Even though the USA has more to owe to France than Britain has, considering you invaded them multiple times throughout history. The UK is a better friend to you than we are.
Jeremiah Clark
>The UK is a better friend to you than we are. those perfidious albions, a better friznd than usa ? HAHAHHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA >let me take a breath HAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHQHAHAHAHA, HON HON HON HON H;N HON Oh god, good one.
Juan Davis
I'm from Marksville, Louisiana and I myself, like most "cajuns" around here, still speak French as a maternal language. My mother is 78 years old and she was in the hospital last year and the doctor was having a hard time understanding her accent and asked what he first language was and I said "French, we speak Cajun French at home" and the doctor lit up like nothing I've ever seen before and said "I'm from France! Do you really speak French here?" and we started talking to him in French the entire time, he asked if I had any children and if they speak French, he asked if anyone else here speak French, when I told him that while we all speak English these days, most of us never lost French as our mother language, we still use it and speak it, he made the biggest smile I've ever seen in my entire life.
Like it or not, the French are in love with their language, they are proud of it and even when they meet people like us, Americans who speak a very old, very rural type of French that is basically incomprehensible to the modern French people, they cannot help but feel pride that their language still lives and that it wasn't taken over by English.
However unlike Cajun French and Quebecois French, the French-French only found success in spreading their language to Africa. This is a huge mistake, which is why Paris isn't even white today. If Paris were populated by Cajun and Quebeckers I wouldn't have any problem with this, but instead France followed a fairly stupid colonization strategy.
Cameron Howard
>success breed jelousy
i see why anglos believe this, they think like that
Angel Hughes
>Hitler rose to power and invaded you again due to the occupation of the Rhine and hyperinflated Weimar mark. Ruhr*. And you are fucking deluded. Both of these occured in . And when did Hitler rise to poer? Right after the Americans crashed their market and selfishly retracted all aid from Germany thus fucking them over.
Nathan Moore
1923* Caps lock not on fug.
Liam Wood
That was actually my nickname in the army, "Frog" or "Froggy". I have a French name that no one could pronounce correctly, so they just called me Frog, kek. But why do you hate us, though? Most people don't even know we still exist, much less that we still speak French.
To be fair, those Africans do speak very good French. I've met a few of them throughout my life and it's always them telling me that I speak French very strangely whereas it should be the other way around, French is my native language and I sound weird even to Africans who learned it as a second or third language, kek.
Julian Barnes
Epatant !
Oliver Gonzalez
What does this have to do with anything? Every European power did colonization with the goal to expand their territories, seize valuable resources and establish centers of trade. It had nothing to do with language. It just so happens that we leaned toward assimilation rather than genocide, so they adopted our language.