• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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      Quebecois French is 50% English. English itself is 99% French. This means Quebecois French is 50%+99%=149% French, making it more French than French itself. So it’s ULTRAFRENCH. It’s one of the main candidates for the mother of all languages, alongside Hebrew and Sanskrit.

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          The fucked up percentages are part of the joke - claims about some attested language being the mother of all others are full of equally flawed reasoning, except the authors genuinely believe on them. Same deal with claims of English being “mostly French”; they’re as silly as saying “a tuxedo cat is 99% spotted cow, 1% orange cat”.