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Francophiles assemble - French punctuation increasingly popular in Ireland

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  • 27-11-2019 12:46pm
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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭


    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 !


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    DrumSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 10,799 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Quoi ?


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    These people are animals.


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    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,297 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    those bastards


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    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,598 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


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

    ¿would that not be better?

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



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    #6
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Blast it with oui oui !


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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    ¡That's unbelievable!


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    TallGlass2
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭TallGlass2


    I'm Lingofluid


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    MrAbyss
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭MrAbyss


    Sounds like a proper Twat.


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    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Cheese eating surrender monkeys!


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    #11
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,784 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


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


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    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    A total disgrace Joe.


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    #13
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Enough French to get by :

    Voulez vous couched avec moi ?

    Que ?

    Incroyable !

    De rein :)


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭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


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    Gatling
    Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Let's invade !
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    #16
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,522 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Thierry Henry :mad:


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    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭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.


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    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Grammar vichys!!!


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    #19
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭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 !


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Sacré bleu!

    Where are you seeing this, exactly?


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    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    MarkR wrote: »
    Sacré bleu!

    Where are you seeing this, exactly?

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


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    peckerhead
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭peckerhead


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

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


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    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


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


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    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭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.


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    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,601 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Now we have French grammar nazi's to? ..two ? ..too ???

    Aussie.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Now we have French grammar nazi's to? ..two ? ..too ???


    Somebody hold me back...


    :D


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    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭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!


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    #28
    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    garçon garçon


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    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Poisson, poisson...


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    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


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


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Quo vadis, Pedro...


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