Francophiles assemble - French punctuation increasingly popular in Ireland

biko

I have noticed the increasing popularity of french punctuation in Ireland.
Maybe it's down to more people admiring the French and their style of grammar and thus mixing it into their daily English.

For example, this sentence just looks plain wrong:
That’s unbelievable !
The correct English punctuation would be:
That’s unbelievable!
but as you may know this is perfectly fine in French

Because:
exclamation marks
question marks
semicolons
colons
the percentage mark
currency symbols
the hash
the guillemet
…all require a space before and after the punctuation mark.

So if you want to use spaces before question marks and exclamation marks, please show your adoration for the French by being consistent.

Merci !

DrumSteve

Quoi ?

jimgoose

These people are animals.

lawred2

those bastards

Ten of Swords

Inverted question marks, Spanish style, is the way to go

¿would that not be better?

whiskeyman

Blast it with oui oui !

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

¡That's unbelievable!

TallGlass2

I'm Lingofluid

MrAbyss

Sounds like a proper Twat.

Widdershins

Cheese eating surrender monkeys!

Mrs OBumble

Like french letters... complete with holes in 'em.

Church on Tuesday

A total disgrace Joe.

One eyed Jack

Enough French to get by :

Voulez vous couched avec moi ?

Que ?

Incroyable !

De rein

jimgoose

Chocolate bread! That's how they start the day. It's only going to escalate from there. By lunchtime you're fucking everybody you know. -- D. Moran

Gatling

Let's invade !

Mr. CooL ICE

Thierry Henry :mad:

Ray Palmer

That is not punctuation standard but a typing standard. Not the same thing and also mostly redundant now due to computer use not instead of typewriters.
The typing standard has not moved on but is now ignored by most businesses. There are loads of rules about spacing of lines etc... These were mostly invested due to restriction of typewriters not for any grammar reasons.

Ipso

Grammar vichys!!!

Bobblehats

so you’re telling me after all this time it wasn’t a device issue people have been doing that on purpose?! Now it’s even more annoying . Feck off to the chateau !

MarkR

Sacré bleu!

Where are you seeing this, exactly?

Bobblehats

MarkR wrote: »

Sacré bleu!

Where are you seeing this, exactly?

You haven’t seen it around here? ahh...annoyin ’

peckerhead

Yes, I remember noticing this twenty years ago when I was travelling there.

Back in one-thousand-nine-hundred-four-twenties-ten-nine.

suicide_circus

i pronounce "restaurant" in 3 syllables and a silent "t"

BDI

I do it sometimes. Sometimes I don’t . Sometimes with question marks ?

I always thought it was some sort of nervous twitch, sometimes I’m unsure whether I should space or not and can’t remember.

Maybe it’s because I’m French after all. I holiday there a lot and always felt at home there. Mad altogether.

EmmetSpiceland

Deja Boo wrote: »

Now we have French grammar nazi's to? ..two ? ..too ???

Aussie.

maudgonner

Deja Boo wrote: »

Now we have French grammar nazi's to? ..two ? ..too ???

Somebody hold me back...

Jurgen Klopp

Good for you, Biko! Glad someone had the guts to stand up to them at last! Coming over here, taking our jobs and our women and acting like they own the feckin' place! Well done Biko! Good for you! Good for you! I'd like to feckin'...

Feckin' Greeks!

YFlyer

garçon garçon

Widdershins

Poisson, poisson...

Elemonator

I swear to God if we import French accents next I'm leaving the country :P

Dr Strange

Quo vadis, Pedro...

jimgoose

Ah, Kerrygold! You 'ave zis in Ireland too??

Archeron

I do love a good interrobang and you'd definitely be leaving space between them.

Widdershins

I think an eroteme is nicer as it is.

Tony EH

Francophiles? FRANCOPHILES?

Bleedin perverts. Leave those French kids alone.

ILoveYourVibes

AT LEAST IT'S NOT BRITISH !

Potential-Monke

I have not noticed this before now. I feel like you have opened Pandora's Box and I'm going to see it everywhere. And it will slowly kill me...

biko

It's rampant across boards.