COLOURS ARE FUCKING COLOURS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, FRANCE?!

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[–] 50 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I know you're not speaking English while complaining about irregular grammar in other languages, I just know.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Well yeah, but one of the big reasons for that is actually the French. See: The Norman Conquest.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Cut cut cut... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ENGLISH !?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    The /u:/ ones are nearly all French words and to put gouda there is just wrong

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    The change is due to the gender Le manteau (masculine "le") La veste (feminine "la"). Many languages have the same concordance between gender and adjectives.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I think it's more about how this doesn't follow the usual rule for adjective agreement. By that rule it would be le manteau blanc / la veste blance, but that sounds weird and un-French I suppose so "blanche" it is. (I don't know French very well so take this all with a grain of salt)

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    On an unrelated topic the letter "C" exists as a testament to the depravity of man

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Italian: many body parts are male gendered in singular, like arm: "braccio" and use the relative article; so "the arm" is "il braccio". However, to make the plural, you use the female gendered SINGULAR version of the word and the female plural article. So "the arms" become "le braccia". But that only works for some body parts, as others work differently!

    Eg: with foot and feet, we use the normal rule: foot (piede) is male so uses the male singular article (il piede). And feet (piedi) remains male and uses the male plural article (i piedi). However, hand (mano) is considered a female gendered word (although it ends with -o which generally means it's male gendered) and uses female articles.

    Also: we don't talk about accents.

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    [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago*

    That regular. This lesson is just written by someone who barely knows french.

    The regular feminin form for adjectif ended in -c in the masculin form is to end either in -che [ʃ] or [k] .

    Blan-c / blan-che Se-c / se-che Fran-c / fran-che

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago

    Sir the title is in English the most irregular language known to mankind

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    Some punk knocks down the Tower of Babel and now we gotta deal with shit like this

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Ehm... this is super common

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    [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Bruh its like spanish with -a or -o suffixes...

    In french you just add -e at the end (like brun/brune), in this case you have to add an h cause blance is ugly, so its blanche, and every word ending with a c is the same (sec/sèche for example). Pretty normal...

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Literally no natural language is perfectly regular

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Blanc i Blanca

    French is not that special.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I think the point here is that the feminine form of blanc is blanche, ending in -che which is irregular. If it were regular it would be blance, but it's not because blance sounds stupid.

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  • Languages have made-up rules by people trying to bring some order into the chaos that actual languages are. The only point of languages is to bring some point across. As long as the receiver understands what the sender was trying to say, it worked. No matter how "wrong" someone else might find it. All the crap about grammar and spelling is like >90% classism.

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    We actually have this in English too. For example, the masculine form is "the white coat" where the feminine is "the eggshell jacket". It's similar with most colors, with multiple irregular feminine forms for each color.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.

    Spoiler: It depends

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
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    Its counter intuitive but a certain amount of irregularity helps languages. By far the easiest rated languages are isolating and lightly inflecting langauges, and from my experience this is even true if your native language is agglutinative. What a lot of these "easy" languages have in common is that theyre not inherently regular, they have irregular word endings and totally arbritary ways of constructing sentences in a way to convey meaning. On the other hand you have of course the languages that are just so irregular that theres no vibe you can go off of like in romance languages(theyre extremely easy to learn if you move to place where theyre spoken) like navajo. Many words go from "i mean that "s" or "a" fits there" to "why is the word form changing completely in this one specific case", on other words you loose all grounding. But i believe the reason a lot of people struggle with highly synthetic languages is the exact opposite, you have to specify everything in the right way or your sentence wont make sense. In highly irregular languages any piece of a sentence could be very important to the meaning, in a highly regular language every piece of the sentence is important to the meaning and right in the middle are languages that mostly follow rules but not always. Also in very regular languages its often not possible to make the reductions which humans love to do. You might have to specify a piece of information over and over in different ways without it leading to the sentence being more understandable. Idk these are my two cents as a definitely native speaker of hungarian and kinda sorta native english speaker.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    You guys have it easy. In my native tongue every verb changes depending on noun's gender, tense, while nouns change depending on - I shit you not - how much cute it is.

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    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Don't think! Memorize!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    This is why Lojban is the best language.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    'I am mechanic who plays a soccer'.

    Yes, very cool France. Thank you.

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