*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

[joeno.livejournal.com]

Isn't Walloon a lot like French anyway? Basically some sort of dialect. I know it's that way with Dutch and Flemish - They're a lot alike, with just a handful of words different and minor differences in pronounciation, but when (like me) you speak Dutch, it's easy to understand those speaking Flemish.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

To be fair, most people trying to learn Walloon have French as their mother tongue (from what I read, there is a movement to get it taught to all Walloon children in schools.) Besides, if you're serious about studying in Belgium, French would probably be of far more use to you than Walloon (by the way, I seem to recall your case against studying in the Netherlands was that you needed to live with relatives - a daily commute to NL would probably take less time than your current daily commuter ;0)

I'm annoyed at all these sources saying that Walloon differs from French in that "the adjective is usually before the noun whilst in French it is after" when in French the adjective is also only *usually* in that position, there are some adjectives where it isn't.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I didn't know about the anti-prescriptivism!

...mostly becase I don't pay attention. Now I know, and Knowing is half the battle!

[joeno.livejournal.com]

Isn't Walloon a lot like French anyway? Basically some sort of dialect. I know it's that way with Dutch and Flemish - They're a lot alike, with just a handful of words different and minor differences in pronounciation, but when (like me) you speak Dutch, it's easy to understand those speaking Flemish.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

To be fair, most people trying to learn Walloon have French as their mother tongue (from what I read, there is a movement to get it taught to all Walloon children in schools.) Besides, if you're serious about studying in Belgium, French would probably be of far more use to you than Walloon (by the way, I seem to recall your case against studying in the Netherlands was that you needed to live with relatives - a daily commute to NL would probably take less time than your current daily commuter ;0)

I'm annoyed at all these sources saying that Walloon differs from French in that "the adjective is usually before the noun whilst in French it is after" when in French the adjective is also only *usually* in that position, there are some adjectives where it isn't.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I didn't know about the anti-prescriptivism!

...mostly becase I don't pay attention. Now I know, and Knowing is half the battle!