Baguettes are distinctly penis shaped, so the French are just wrong about that.
Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense
mellowheat@suppo.fi 8 months ago
“Je voudrais un baguette” I once asked in a parisian boulangerie. I don’t think anyone has looked at me with the same level of disgust before as the older lady selling the breads.
“Voilà, une baguette.”, the “une” flying through me like an icicle.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Just wait to learn how we gender “dick” and “cunt” in French (hint: it’s not the way you’d think).
It’s the one thing people who aren’t fluent in a gendered language usually fail to grasp: Grammatical gender is in most situations completely separate from social gender. The grammatical gender in “une bite” has absolutely no social function and is not in any way contradictory to its traditionally opposite social gender.
Ironically it’s also why using the wrong grammatical gender feels so wrong/unnatural to a native speaker (not that it’s an excuse to be a dick to non-native speakers ofc): gender is not just “a social concept attached to a word”, it is an inherent property of the word that matters fundamentally to sentence structure and so misusing it throws everything off-balance.
Spoilt@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Does this means i’m gay ?
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
My solution is replacing all les/la/l’ with a vaguely sounding “ll” sound.
I get the odd scathing look.
And occasionally someone will stop the conversation, and ask me to use the correct word, fully away of the shit I’m trying to pull.
Stamets@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Stupid fucking foreigner thinking my bread has a dick…”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why does he look like someone just shoved a vacuum hose up his ass and turned on the vacuum.