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[โ€“] 93 points 8 months ago (36 children)

It's not our fault French was made wrong.

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  • [โ€“] 45 points 8 months ago* (27 children)

    One of my multilingual friends called English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.

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  • [โ€“] 47 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    I hate it honestly. The french spent centuries ruling England and messing up our language just for the rest of the world to make fun of us for it as if it's our fault.

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  • [โ€“] 64 points 8 months ago (19 children)

    "Wah, I'm the British, and I'm upset about being colonized" that's what you sound like

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I'm american but the romans and french taught them how to do it.

    And if anyone calls me british ever again there will be consequences

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Oh no, an american threatening consequences. What are you going to do, impose tariffs?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn't understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they're bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English "from the outside" for a few minutes.

    If you're curious,I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it's like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don't.

    If anybody else has had this experience, I'm curious what it was like for you, too.

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didnโ€™t change the spelling

    rendez-vousโ€™s pronounciation is perfectly regular in french

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [โ€“] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Languageยฎ

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  • [โ€“] 51 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?

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    [โ€“] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Don't even get me started on Colonel.

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    [โ€“] 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French's inbread son.

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    [โ€“] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    fuck all french origin words in english

    they all behave counter to the rest of english logic

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Poor monolinguals

    I'm choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke

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    [โ€“] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It'd be spelled ๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘›๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘ต in Shavian script English, is that better?

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    [โ€“] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I know all about etymology and language evolution.

    I still think it's stupid to write "EAU" to say "O".

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