Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like “lead” and you don’t even know how to pronounce it!
French culture
Submitted 3 days ago by Genius@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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Tja@programming.dev 3 days ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
though thoughts are tough.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 days ago
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
“I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday”
Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭
Tja@programming.dev 3 days ago
Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can’t know how to pronounce the second “read” until you get to “yesterday”. Schrödingers pronunciation.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them
“Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tudá.”
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Uh, that is pronounced “lead”. You’re welcome.
JLock17@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For those illiterates who need a clear example, “lead lead lead.” Simple geography.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As a Spanish speaker, I find it so ironic to see this meme in English…
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
most of the letters
Queue
(and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)
Soup@lemmy.world 3 days ago
French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh. Yeah. Right. Sure. Let’s say that.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 days ago
English is fucked up in large part due to being corrupted by the French cancer. If anything we are one of the most qualified to talk shit about them.
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 1 day ago
- French language: Objectively one of the sexiest on the planet
- Lemmy shitposter: High probability of clinical brain death
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Say 96 in French and then repeat that sentence.
atlas@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
i’m pretty positive spanish takes that cake. omelette du fromage just ain’t sexy
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Nope, pretty sure French politics should get a crying face (saying this as a French citizen)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think historical, and the seriousness of it (guillotines, etc)
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not pictured: French aircraft design
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Like the Concorde?
Soup@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.
If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was thinking their inter-war bomber designs, and their early attempts at fighters post WWII
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
Pssshh whatever, can’t be mad at a language that contains pamplemousse
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I prefer Pomplamoose instead - youtu.be/kTP246fnKAI
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cramouille is the best french word
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Anticonstititionellement is my favorite.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 days ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 days ago
And Dishonored, Rayman, Another World…
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 days ago
French culture my ass.
Paris is an overpriced amusement park where all the employee hate you.
Give me Italy any day.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Fun fact: countries consist of more than one city.
Additional information: there are cultural differences between different regions in the same country, even between different cities and towns in the same region! Imagine that!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But US tourists spend two days each in London, Paris, Prague and Rome, and then they’ve seen all of Europe. Isn’t that how it works? Besides it’s not as if they’ve got extra vacation days anyway.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well alright, but have you considered that Voltaire is really good?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That guy who made fun of French institutions?
Vermingot@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Reparle de paris encore une seule fois batard et j’enverrai ta tête tellement loin qu’elle aura le temps de faire tout le tour de la dinguerie géologique et culturelle qu’est la France avant de retomber dans le Limousin où ta tête finira ses jours paisiblement entourée de jolies vaches.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can make up nonsense words too.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yeah, if you only do touristy stuff you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s like saying NYC sucks when you’ve only visited Time Square.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 days ago
C’est la vie
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
French toast
tino@lemmy.world 3 days ago
French don’t know about French toasts.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We know it, it’s called pain perdu.
jellygoose@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ta yeule estie de raisin
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I once heard from a friend learning French that the way to say that you are in the process of doing something literally translated to ‘I am on the train to [doing the thing]’. Is that correct?
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution “en train de [verbe]”, en train has the 15th century meaning of “in action”, “in movement”, this predates the invention of the railroad :)
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Wait, woah, so the term ‘train’ is from the French work for ‘motion’, essentially? That’s kind of a dub.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m well on the way to writing that report, boss
Our company is on the road to developing those features
I’m on the path to forgiving you
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’ve lost my train of thoughts
Camille@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Native here, yep it is correct and idiomatic. “Je suis en train de [faire la chose]”
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As a person learning French, I think it’s more closely related to “training” or “entrain.”
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 1 day ago
hon hon hon. tabarnac!!!
Yukily@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Abadakor !!!
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 2 days ago
youtu.be/VNLrCWCv38Y this might change your mind about the French language…it sure showed me where it shines.
Beautiful song, beautifully sung.
vatlark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Got any more?
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They have 2 songs together as far as i’m aware. I just stumbled upon this one last week.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You could say I have to take a shit in French and it would sound smooth as hell. -Eddy Murphy.
guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
J’dois aller chier calisse
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
According to French scientists, the best thing to wipe ones’ ass with is the neck of a well-downed gosling.
…blogspot.com/…/rabelais-ultimate-arse-wiper.html
(not actually scientists but a character in 16th century writer Rabelais’ book.)
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
quaso
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
have you seen french politics? like actually?
i know that when compared to the US it may as well be a socialist utopia but french politics are awful. france is one of the countries most responsible for imperialism and colonialism.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Really it’s more that French politicians are properly accountable to the people, who will protest and strike frequently. That’s what makes French politics great, not the leaders but the citizens.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I don’t know how much you know about France, and french politics specifically, but as a person born in France I want to tell you that you might have been mislead… From my point of view and with my knowledge, politics here is a shit show, basically the elite mock everyone, France is run by billionaires, happily oppressing the poor.
tino@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No, politicians don’t give a shit about people striking. And the biggest haters of strikes are the citizens who don’t like their life and privileges to be disturbed by people striking for their rights.