The Francreole Grammar

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About the Author

Born in Marigot, Haiti, author André Ladouceur went on to study in Port-au-Prince; and then in New York at the New York Academy of Sciences, where he pursued his masters in linguistics and polyglocy; at the New York Writers Institute (Division of the Newspaper Institute of America), where he graduated in journalism; then in Kansas City, where he received his PhD at the Neotarian Fellowship and College of Philosophy.

He worked for twenty-seven years as a Creole, French, and English interpreter for the US Department of Justice in New York City in New Jersey, and in Florida, where he finally retired.

His plans for the future are to make writing a career and to lecture on philosophy, linguistics, and journalism, areas in which he feels he has much to contribute.

Now a retired veteran language interpreter, his interests are in writing, in family, and in the news media.

He is the author of four published books—Une Merveille Haitienne d’Intéret Public; Scientific Verb Conjugating in the English Language; Langue çaae, Logique ’liie et Méthode ’liie; and the present volume—in addition to eight other articles available online at http://www.francreoliaguild.com and at http//www.francreoliaguild.com. He has also written a countless number of unpublished papers.

Table of Contents

Good Morning from Francreolia!

What to Expect

Cher Lecteur:

Preview of the Verbs to Be Conjugated

The Nine Parts of Speech

Articles in Francreole

Recapitulative Remarks

Adjectives in Francreole

Formation of Pronouns in Francreole

Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections

The Verbs

Auxiliary Éter (to be)

Non-Auxiliary Yer (to be)

Auxiliary Ter (to have)

Non-Auxiliary Gaigner (to have)

Gagner (to win)

Auxiliary Progressive Apper (to be in the process of)

Savoir (to acquaint, to know)

Capre (to be able to)

Devoir (to have to)

Dwer (ought to)

Vouloir (to want)

Boire (to drink)

Cware (to believe vaguely)

Croire (to believe seriously)

Bware (to drink execessively)

Waire (to see lightly)

Voir (to see deeply)

Besogner (to do one’s thing)

Voir (to see)

Puire (to be able to)

Cuire (to cook)

Asseoir (to sit, to sit down )

Bailler (to hand over to)

Donner (to give, to donate)

Venir (to come)

Mettre (to put)

Lire (to read)

Faire (to do)

Prendre (to take)

Dire (to say)

Parler (to speak)

Travailler (to work)

Rire (to laugh)

Sourire (to smile)

Soumettre (to submit)

Comprendre (to understand, to comprehend)

Admettre (to admit)

Présenter (to present)

Suspendre (to suspend, to stop, to hang up)

Éter ébloui (to be amazed)

Échouer (to fail)

Trouver (to find)

Manger (to eat)

Dormir (to sleep)

Lever (to get up, to lift up, to stand up)

Valoir (to be worth)

Juger (to judge)

Réussir (to succeed)

Offrir (to offer)

Recevoir (to receive)

Rendre Moune (to render, to yield, to realize)

Conclure (to conclude)

Finir (to finish)

Falloir (to need)

Aller (to go)

Praller (to be going)

Naître (to be born)

Suivre (to follow)

Coudre (to saw)

Annoncer (to announce)

Plaire (to please)

Aimer (to love, to like)

Causer (to talk, to cause)

Ouvrir (to open)

Vivre (to live)

Penser (to think)

Mourir (to die)

Agir (to act)

Rêver (to dream)

Paraître (to appear)

Connaître (to know)

Apprendre (to learn)

Taire Moune (to shut one’s mouth)

Devnir (to become)

Jeter (to throw)

Diaglotic Francreole

Good Morning from Francreolia!

Behold diaglotic Francreole, the newest literary renaissance in the world today, in contrast to the Creole patois!

Francreolians are bilingual communicators in French and Creole separately. However, Creole has remained a local dialect opposed to any standard pattern of inscription whatsoever, other than as it goes, it goes, even though it has been in existence for as many as 351 years.

The reason for the Creole dialect having being so neglected is that French—an official, researched, and vehicular language—has been readily handy during this time. Therefore, little mind, if any, has been paid to literary research that could budge Creole from its dialectal status to that of a methodical grammar.

A dialect is a blend of two languages, one of which is grammatically poor in status, in accountable analysis, and in explained elements. But just thirty years ago, in 1985, some concerned parties made a decision to develop some sort of orthographic pattern for Creole and in the process ended up upsetting many educated Creole speakers, including ourselves, the Francreole advocates! Hence, we dissented and became the Francreolians.

Francreolia is a concept that was created by dissenting literary communicators. Our task is to approach Francreole as a modern language. Francreolia also means any of the many regions—or all of them together—where Francreole happens to be a vernacular language. Francreole, also referred to as French Creole, is French Creole euphonically recomposed. It is, therefore, a diaglocy but no longer a mere dialect.

A diaglocy is a blend of two up-to-date grammars revised into a standard literary language that is both vehicular and vernacular. In other words, a diaglocy is a blend of two languages made into a grammar and behaving as such, as opposed to being a mere patois. Creole patois is not a grammar; it is just a local dialect.

Francreole does not set itself up in opposition to French, which is comparably a perfect language. A patois, on the other hand, although also a blended language, is and remains only a dialect and nothing more than that, since it is too imperfect to standardize as a refined diaglocy unless it has been analytically researched.

The analysis and standardization of Francreole is a task that is of concern to a growing number of educated Creole speakers worldwide who have dissented from French patois, also referred to as Creole, which they judge too onomatopoetic in its vocabulary and syntax and too uneducational in its archaism. Francreole, from now on, exists as an innovation that is analytically based on nine well-detailed parts of speech. We also refer to it as the literary renaissance of a rather refined and vehicular Creole, as opposed to French patois, from which we vehemently dissent.

As Francreolians, we object to what we perceive as recklessness and mishandling on the part of French patois—its feudal orthography and the ambiguity of its meaning.

Insofar as Creolians are concerned, Creole is a local dialect wherein pedagogy is nowhere to be found! Because of that, didactics were simply not represented in Creole. The active use of Creole was either simpletonism or pure radical onomatopoeia. Consequenly, Creole appears to have been orthographically and literarily composed without any round table discussions, which discriminated against objecting parties. Even before it was made official, it appears that there were no consultations with educators whatsoever! It may be presumed that its adoption was made solely by proxy, as if it is intended only for the uneducated to the exclusion of the educated! Maybe those are the reasons why Creole has been so unsuccessful among the educated; its merely accidental vocabulary and system of writing ensure that it remains just a patois in status as well as in nature.

The standardized system of French patois being too lacking in syntax and articulation, we dissenters have considered it erroneous and unfit for education in contrast to the views of those who have blindly chosen to accept it as is.

We Francreolians are not at all happy with French patois. So we sought to do something about it: we have revised it, through research and analysis, into an innovation. Now, assuming that our literary revision may not readily be accepted by those who already have invested their time, energy, and savings into the unliterary patois, we have adopted a position for the long haul by choosing to call ourselves Francreole speakers in light of this present diaglocy. Hence, we call ourselves the Francreolians.

As Francreole-speaking individuals, we are the interregional bastion of all diaglotic Francreole speakers, distinctly and vernacularly, in protest to onomatopoetic Creole. Francreolia is the denomination of our bastion for all self-aware, literate Francreole-speaking individuals.

With unanimity, we have objected to the antiquated system of word spellings generally adopted for vernacular Creole, and we have chosen to remain independent from it by acquiring our own orthography in opposition to Creole, or French patois. We did so knowing that others just like us will see the light, and the light shall, one day, set them free, even if that may take decades or even centuries. For they eventually, if not certainly, will have to choose to join us for their own good. We are calling everyone’s attention to the Francreole literatures now available in opposition to the mere Creole dialect of French patois.

Books are in the making. Meanwhile, literatures are available at the following website: http://www.francreoliaguild.com

Thank you!

Francreolia Guild Literary Journal, Inc.

What to Expect

In Francreole, the vowels e and u, the consonant r, and the diphthong eu are pronounced the exact same way as they are spelled. Those are the indices of couth communicating. For literate individuals voluntarily to choose to omit them where they should be applied is a sign of illiteracy on their parts. For those indices do indeed have their places in our discourse.

We would be indifferent to diction and common sense, with but little regard for our interlocutors, if we were to ignore the ethics of self-address among interlocutors, as set out by grammar. Otherwise, miscommunicating would be advantageous only to betrayal, as it has proven to be the path that leads to obscurantism.We must not continue to turn a deaf ear toward self criticism by not applying those indices.

Diaglotic Francreole is an interregional vernacular that has inherited at least 80 percent of its etymology from French as well as 80 percent of its semantics, whereas articles, pronouns, verb conjugations, phraseology, and construction are either innovated Francreole or inherited from Creole.

Cher Lecteur:

Entité çaae appéi attirer attention ‘ouw sur yon genre littéraire qui désormais usitéi. Li s’agit de ion « diaglotie » dénommée « Francréole ». Francréole c’éi ion grammaire qui prouvéi liie