Project Gutenberg 2012-10-18 Public domain in the USA. 56 Meigret, Louis, active 16th century Maigret, Louïs Maigret, Louis Meygret, Louis Traité touchant le commun usage de l'escriture françoise Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Traité touchant le commun usage de l'escriture françoise" by Loys Meigret is a linguistic treatise written in the 16th century. This work discusses the rules and common practices associated with writing in the French language, focusing on the errors and confusions that arise from inconsistencies between spelling and pronunciation. It is likely of interest to those engaged in the study and appreciation of the French language and its evolution. The opening of the treatise introduces the author's critical examination of the French writing system, arguing that it is fraught with faults due to a disconnection from phonetic pronunciation. Meigret outlines the various ways in which the writing is corrupt—through the superfluity or omission of letters, and the misuse of certain characters that obscure meaning and lead to misreading. He emphasizes the need for a reformed writing system that mirrors the pronunciation more accurately, asserting that the confusion in writing renders it almost useless for clear communication and understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41099/41099-h/images/cover.jpg fr French language -- Orthography and spelling PC Text FR Langues Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature 185685 185694 2024-09-17T09:48:29.881670 2023-09-18T04:58:52.223156 text/html text/html 181749 2012-10-18T07:35:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 243978 2012-10-18T07:35:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 318408 2024-09-17T09:48:33.234702 application/epub+zip 315009 2024-09-17T09:48:30.434668 application/epub+zip 138025 2024-09-17T09:48:30.140688 application/epub+zip 401532 2024-09-17T09:48:35.779683 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 381061 2024-09-17T09:48:32.935661 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 204333 2022-09-18T18:43:31.673337 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 170345 2024-09-17T09:48:29.404670 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 170018 2012-10-18T07:35:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 59706 2012-10-18T07:35:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 168855 2012-10-18T07:35:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 59518 2012-10-18T07:35:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19561 2024-09-17T09:48:35.917638 application/rdf+xml 21787 2024-09-17T09:48:30.216693 image/jpeg 3289 2024-09-17T09:48:30.178675 image/jpeg 248559 2024-09-17T09:48:29.902667 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog