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darklamer@feddit.org 2 months ago
WTF is ‘cwah-sont’!?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
- darklamer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Not that I would ever claim to know every French pastry, but I’m reasonably certain that there’s nothing in all of France or in the French language named ‘cwah-sont’.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Assuming no sarcasm, Its a spelling attempt at the French pronuncitation of croissant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAoRcnY4xs
- darklamer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Its a spelling attempt at the French pronuncitation of croissant.
That makes zero sense.
The examples of English pronounciations she gives there are truly bizarre.
pmk@piefed.ca 2 months ago
But the french “r” is not like an english “w”?
Skunk@jlai.lu 2 months ago
We just say croissant.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
“Can I have one of those Croy Sunts please?”
“What? I don’t know what a Quasson is”
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
www.frenchlearner.com/pronunciation/croissant/
I fail to see the connection to ‘cwah-sont’, apart from the first and last letter being the same, but if that was a sufficent criteria then one might as well write just anything, like ‘convalescent’.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The link you posted literally says “kwa-son”
wieson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a very clear and distinct R
I haven’t posted any links.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Well I guess I was just trying to show that the French barely pronounce the R. It’s very soft at best and English speakers often hear it as more of a “kwa” or like “quoi” is pronounced (or like, maybe “cwah” if you like a hard C in your drink.)
The phonetic pronunciation in French is: [kʁwasɑ̃] (if that doesn’t come through, look at Wikipedia
The ʁ (upside down R) is guttural or uvular, and in some pronunciation guides it can even be dropped.
Anyways, you seem upset at their butchering of the pronunciation guide they’re giving to show how badly they butcher their imitation of how the French pronounce croissant (there’s no hard T at the end, for example) and I think that makes this particularly funny.
I’m just struggling to decipher what the joke in OP’s picture actually means.