That "asteure" is weird to me! I mean, not just because it stumped me (which it did until reading your french text) but because I would have figured it would have been rendered as three separate words, even if the spelling of them was garbled. But maybe Fritz looked at it like a contraction or something.
I don't know if 18th century French had the sheer amount of elision that modern French does, but I would absolutely not expect someone spelling French phonetically to consistently separate the words. It's been argued by phonologists that modern French doesn't have word-level stress but only phrase-level stress, meaning that phonologically the phrase is more of a conceptual unit than the words. Fritz's spelling here might actually be evidence that the phenomenon had already begun 300 years ago, but with only a single data point, I can't say.
(added to his natural capacity to be extremely awfully bad at picking kidstaff...)
You mean accidentally extremely good. :D But, yeah, as Selena says, FW being a fish out of water means that it would be very hard for him to find anyone who was a hundred percent on board with his educational program.
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Re: Fritz-Duhan Follow-Up
Date: 2021-01-18 04:31 pm (UTC)I don't know if 18th century French had the sheer amount of elision that modern French does, but I would absolutely not expect someone spelling French phonetically to consistently separate the words. It's been argued by phonologists that modern French doesn't have word-level stress but only phrase-level stress, meaning that phonologically the phrase is more of a conceptual unit than the words. Fritz's spelling here might actually be evidence that the phenomenon had already begun 300 years ago, but with only a single data point, I can't say.
(added to his natural capacity to be extremely awfully bad at picking kidstaff...)
You mean accidentally extremely good. :D But, yeah, as Selena says, FW being a fish out of water means that it would be very hard for him to find anyone who was a hundred percent on board with his educational program.