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• FryHyde@lemmy.zip ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It is actually fairly irritating to me when people do this. It’s not a proper noun. It’s honestly wild to completely change your accent for the pronunciation of a single word in your sentence.

  If you had a trans-atlantic accent, you wouldn’t suddenly roll your rs when pronouncing “burrito”, or do an impression of the Japanese when saying “sashimi”. If you did, it would probably sound disrespectful af.

  So why does everyone do it with “croissant” and act like it’s totally normal?

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Probably because english has a bunch of french words we do this for because of our legacy with courtly french. Entree is another example.

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• Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Azzu@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can someone please tell me how Americans, or whoever this meme is about, pronounce croissant? Because I only know the french pronunciation and can not imagine another one.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Generally, in the US, it’s pronounced as cres-AHNT. It has a clear R sound, the T at the end involves moving your tongue toward the T position, but the word ends without a clear T sound (as opposed to the French pronunciation, where the R becomes a W and the word ends on the N sound, with the T completely omitted.)

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me: “I’ll have a crescent, please.”

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The t is silent. The end sound is a nasal n so more like kwah–sahn with the final n being very nasal and soft.

  I actually find the french r to be super difficult though. Way the hell back in the throat where letters aren’t supposed to be formed.

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  • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s because your mouth isn’t soft enough. French requires you to release the tension in your mouth and tongue, it’s weird but it really works

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is pronounced croissant actually

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    • UpperBroccoli@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      No no no no no.

      It’s croissant.

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same in parts of germany. Though we also have tongue-r regions so you can choose

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    where letters aren't supposed to be formed.

    I think you'd have a "fun" time with Arabic (CTRL+F "Pharyngeal" for the fun).

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• darklamer@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  WTF is ‘cwah-sont’!?

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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.frenchlearner.com/pronunciation/croissant/

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    • darklamer@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      https://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’.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A French pastry

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    • darklamer@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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’.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  [t]

  … tch. Imbecile.

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Obligatory Foux du Fafa - Flight of the Conchords

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fun Fact! Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous French general and Emperor, was actually infamously hard to understand by his native French colleagues, in part because French was not his native tongue! He spoke French with a thick Corsican accent!

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