On Monday 30 May 2016 20:35:40 Rodary Jacques wrote: > Thank you, I didn't know. In French (I was careful > here) languages' names and peoples' nationalities > don't take a capital letter. But towns' and countries' > names do of course. > Jacques > P.S.:I still don't see where was the joke in my post, > but never mind.
I couldn't make head or tail of what you were saying about *English* so decided that it was meant to be a joke. You *were* trying to make a joke of it, of course. If you had just said "When I type "english" the spell-checker tries to correct to to "English", why?" I'd have known immediately what you meant. So: I would have got that wrong in French (note the capital) too. I thought that: Je suis Anglaise et je parle anglais, vous êtes Français et vous parlez français. But you say that it is: Je suis anglaise et je parle anglais, vous êtes français et vous parlez français? (Parlez-vois français, je parle le français?) Lisi
