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I'm a European who visits Houston from time to time. And once I had this Uber driver who was very interested in European history. We talked about how the various European languages related to each other, and he said something that makes France make sense: "French is the result og Germanic people trying to speak Latin"
But French started as celts (Gauls) trying to speak Latin, the germanic influence on it came later through the Franks.
Maybe he said Gauls and I remember it incorrectly.
We could have had the langue d’Oc.
Instead the parisians forced the langue d’Oïl (modern french) upon us.
Dark History
technically this is due to cultural genocide by the french government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha