whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense
that just about describes half the English vocabulary
Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven’t recovered.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
at least it doesn’t have random h’s like thorough etc.
Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.
I hate English.
tkc@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve always heard it pronounced per-ogative, not prr-ogative
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Прерогатива. More spelling for you.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 7 months ago
C’est la vie
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
C’est la vie
C’est la guerre
C’est la pomme de terre
miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you’d use la
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ah ok i will go fix it
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t tell me what to use.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love that ABBA song!
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
bluewing@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You leave potatoes out of this. They are literally the food of gods and glorious when fried!
Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Avec la pomme de terre on fait les frites 🍟
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is why they’re called FRENCH fries. Because we’re speaking French.
Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Déjà vu
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Honestly, the original question was a good one. That snarky reply in the original picture was pretty douchey. There’s a lot of interesting history behind linguistics.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 months ago
we stole it from the French
The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Actually the Normans, who were Vikings who rocked up in France and caused such a stink that the crown granted them lands in the north to shut them up. 1066 was basically a succession crisis between three cousins vying for the English crown.
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
La Marseillaise intensifies
TxzK@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
Jerkface@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What? I thought it was the main one.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
French bashing is overdone and unfunny
TxzK@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
39 people disagree apparently, not counting me. Humour is subjective after all. If anything, forcing your humour to others is even more overdone imo.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
i dont rly care, just saying that its rly annoying and fucking dumb