*beats her head against her lap for a few seconds*

[conuly]

I'm on my bed, I don't have a desk :)

So, let's list my obsessions:

Autism (yeah, you knew that)
Breastfeeding (a bit counterintuitive, but you knew that too, I'm sure)
Fighting against prescriptivism (tell me you didn't know that, just try!)
Correcting people's grammar/spelling (um....)
Walloon (this is why I say djusk' a sometimes.)

Now, I really do want to learn walloon. Really.

Unfortunately, ALL the resources about walloon are in French. Which would be useful if, y'know, I spoke French, but I don't... GAH!

Language of my ancestors, here, and I can't speak to my living relatives, so can I learn the language of my ancestors? Of course not! And it's going to take me forever to learn enough French to be able to learn Walloon! Expletive profanity cursewords!

Oh, and there's information about learning Walloon in Walloon. I don't see the logic.

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Nice to know what my only lovable trait is ;0)

But actually, I just researched it. I mean, I knew vaguely about it an stuff, that it was related to French and so on, but I also knew that it was not one of Belgium's official languages (at least, I don't believe it is) and just other vague stuff like that. It was fun researching it, I like learning about languages, it's very interesting.

I'm actually living with a Belgium girl at the moment, but she's the Flemish type (says she's from near Brussels but never goes there "because they speak French" ;0) rather than Walloon. This is probably a good thing - we live in a building infested with Dutchies, not French people ;0)

[conuly]

*giggles* I can see that. For a while, my sister had a Flemish boss. Ei, it was "sure we spoke Flemish - in the kitchen."

My mom thinks Belgium is going to tear itself apart, though, with the Flemish and the Walloons (and the germans too!)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I can see that. For a while, my sister had a Flemish boss. Ei, it was "sure we spoke Flemish - in the kitchen."

Come again?

Oh, and just so you know, I read "ei" as "no" - was that what you intended?

[conuly]

Ei - to/for him/her/it.

His family very much denigrated Flemish, they only wanted to speak French.

It's very interesting, the "better" language is always the language spoken by the richer population, so when the walloons were richer, it was all about French (and Walloon died, just about) and when the Flemish are richer it's all about Flemish (or more likely Dutch...)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

That is interesting, yeah. Not entirely surprising.

And ei = third person singular negative in Finnish (and also just used generally for no) so you can see my confusion... ;0)