Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français marché. Désolé pas désolé

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  • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ah so you have discovered in your comment how french functions.

    what’s Desole?

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    • KumaLumaJuma@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry… it says sorry not sorry 😅😅

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      • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        is the rest of my translation correct?

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s when you remove the bottom of a shoe.

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      • eskimofry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        ok i stepped onto that one myself.

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious statement!

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “États” is “States” ☝️🤓

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🤯

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• pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.

  Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.

  It also happened with circumflex.

  Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.

  Here’s a whole video about exactly this.

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