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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 193 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No way this is real.

The waiter would have said "Non."

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[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

No she was in a deep shock that she forgot her mother tongue and the brain switched to the next available language.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [S] 49 points 1 year ago

and the brain switched to the ~~next available~~ factory default language, English.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

... wouldn't that be pronounced the same, though?

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[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago

Non

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Non is pronounced without a complete final n, but air diverts through the sinuses as if you did pronounce the n. Or even as if you said nōng, but didn't finish saying the g.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes, it was joke. To those who don't speak French, it just sounds like "no" with a French accent.

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[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

“No”, on the other han, does not sound like “non” to the French; they’re used to differentiating nasal versus non-nasal vowels.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

😳

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