Isn't humiliating for romance speakers use English in PM?

[Foxy]

I was messaging with a Portuguese user and I noticed that we both used English, although he probably would understand me if I wrote in Italian and vice versa. I stopped for a while from writing and though "WTF!"
Shouldn't we try to use a romance language AT LEAST when we write to each others? Is it a too stupid idea?

[Rudel]

Je préfèrerais que chacun me parle en sa langue plutôt qu'en anglais (du moment que c'est une langue romane).

Il est vrai qu'il est assez humiliant d'être forcés à parler le patois infâme de la perfide Albion.

[Han Cholo]

Je préfèrerais que chacun me parle en sa langue plutôt qu'en anglais (du moment que c'est une langue romane).

Il est vrai qu'il est assez humiliant d'être forcés à parler le patois infâme de la perfide Albion.

Para mí, personalmente es bastante dificil entender francés. Pude entender el contexto de tu mensaje porque eran unas cuantas oraciones, pero estoy seguro que si te hubiera escuchado hablar me sonaría bastante extranjero.

Con el italiano "standar" me pasa lo contrario. Es más fácil entenderlo cuando hablan que cuando lo escriben.

[hobosmurf]

Isn't it much more efficient to have a single lingua franca?

[Gaston]

Humiliating? Well, most romance-speakers of Europe could be humiliated by the fact they've lost forever their pre-roman languages.
And also, there are huge differences between modern Romance languages so you can't actually understand 100% of another romance language unless you studied it enough. French has one of the most non-romance influence in its vocabulary so it's probably hard to understand it (unless English is spoken too, ironically).

I don't understand all Spanish because of the consonant changing (among others) like facere > hacer.



There was until recently a Romance-based lingua franca in the Mediterranean by the way, called Lingua Franca or Sabir.

[Han Cholo]

With languages like Romanian or Moldovan is even harder. While their pronounciation is more "standard latin" it is hard to get the context (as it has weird morphological features such as preserving declensions.)

[Rudel]

Isn't it much more efficient to have a single lingua franca?

Oui, le français.

Para mí, personalmente es bastante dificil entender francés. Pude entender el contexto de tu mensaje porque eran unas cuantas oraciones, pero estoy seguro que si te hubiera escuchado hablar me sonaría bastante extranjero.

De toda maneras todo el mundo está escribiendo aquí. En este contexto, pienso que la comprensión no es insuperable.

[Methusalem]

With languages like Romanian or Moldovan is even harder. While their pronounciation is more "standard latin" it is hard to get the context (as it has weird morphological features such as preserving declensions.)

Do you understand French, Portugese and Italian?

[Han Cholo]

Do you understand French, Portugese and Italian?

Understand to some extent. I can write Portuguese also, not the others.

[Virtuous]

E allora perche non impariamo il Latino, propio come nei tempi Romani...OH KE LINGVA MAGNA.