Those damn mongorians!
Mongolian. Like the barbecue.
Submitted 8 months ago by AnonWyo@startrek.website to [deleted]
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gorysubparbagel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
That’s one of my all time favourite South park episodes.
Getting the local Chinese restauranteur to build the city wall… because the Chinese are good at building walls.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In Viking’s defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I recently saw a tiktok (therefore I’m an expert) that showed that Old French was pronounced pretty much exactly how it was spelled.
Every language simplifies it’s pronunciation over time, but usually they alter the spelling when they do, but French just said “miss me with that shit, dog” and decided just to change the rules about pronunciation instead
The_Lopen@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I mean, I Heard that French monks were paid by the letter scribed, rather than the word, so they just put extra letters into everything using made up rules about spelling.
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably yes, but the rules are simple enough today that you don’t need a PhD to explain though thought, or tie vs tier, or… wait for it… live vs live, or record vs record, read vs read.
GeoGio7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Being racist to the Gauls I see
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually, I blame the Franks.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
How could you say something so controversial yet so true?
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Why was “fuck” censored? It doesn’t hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?
kazakhspy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How would you like to go to the school councelor?
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
How would you like to suck my balls?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Really should have censored the M word.
Only a monolingual can call another monolingual “monolingual”.
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I know american sign language and english. Am I monolingual?
Wait…how do we count languages? Do programming languages count as a second language?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kuno:
who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that
You:
Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist
Kuno:
what the fuck did you just call me
Kunoesse:
He called you Mongolian
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
We really need to finish this game. So many little gems spread across the way
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
It sounds like something Encyclopedia could say
Ascend910@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?
andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bilinguals aren’t impressive at all. I think most people are bilinguals. Apparently, according to Journal of Neurolinguistics, we have more bilinguals (43 percent of the world population) rather than monolinguals (40 percent).
uis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are trilingual regions in my country. And one neighbouring country is mostly trilingual too(2 official languages + 1 foreign)
current@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Well nobody can objectively force something to impress you or not impress you. But most people speak more than one language natively or on a regular basis, hell just short of 2 billion people (1/4 the world’s population!) alone are from the Indian subcontinent region, and there the high variation/diversity of languages throughout the region make speaking 3-4 languages well the norm.
Similar story with Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. And most people in Central Asia and many European parts of the former USSR speak Russian as a 2nd language (nearly all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Baltic people speak Russian natively to a high fluency, while also speaking a 2nd sometimes 3rd native language)
MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I met a couple in Vanuatu - one of the world’s most language dense nations - whose mother tongues were mutually unintelligible, so they communicated using the country’s official language, Bislama. A lot of bilingual people don’t speak English. Plenty of Eastern Europeans don’t speak English (unpopular during communist rule) but speak say German or Russian as well as Serbocroatian or whatever.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 8 months ago
When someone asks me which languages I speak, I say Italian.
“…and?” “Well, English of course”
“…and?” “…and that’s it”, I’d admit embarassed.
Among young educated people in most of Europe it is common to speak at least two languages beside your native one.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
As long as you speak the language most used in your country and English then you’re fine
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
English people: Holy shit, I’m doubly qualified to go out and explore the world
wieson@feddit.de 8 months ago
Was at the airport in Buenos Aires, English didn’t help me. Luckily I had learned a handful of useful phrases in Spanish.
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They do speak Benjamin Franklin everywhere though.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Monolinguals are as culturally diverse as Mongolians. Just staying in one place, no need to expand horizons or learn anything new.
spamfajitas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The last time the Mongolians decided to expand their horizons, it didn’t work out so well for a decent chunk of the rest of the world. I think it’s perfectly fine they choose to keep things simple, tbh.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Poor *anglophones
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
of course there’s a word for that
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know some of those words, nice!
Default_Defect@midwest.social 8 months ago
Mongolic language
Mongolic my balls.
Gottem
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I mean, it’s pronounced like it’s spelled except for the Z.
UmeU@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The thing about Mongolians is that their barbecue is not the traditional Korean barbecue.
SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I believe the proper insult is “Mongoloid” thank you very much!
phorq@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
First they Mongolians make the NoSQL database of my nightmares and now this… When will they learn!?
Wilzax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It should be spelled “Rondevu”
taanegl@lemmy.world 8 months ago
*horse riding intensifies*
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Admittedly the way French is pronounced is pretty dumb
Hupf@feddit.de 8 months ago
jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 8 months ago
So are they aware that they’re trying to shame a joke account that’s already doing a bit?
Do they think they’re winning? Are they in on the bit? What sort of cataclysm has to happen for Twitter people to wake up and go “oh my god, I WAS THE ASSHOLE THIS ENTIRE TIME, WHAT AM I DOING HERE”?
I’m glad I get to wipe my ass with what’s left of them without having to touch their vile community, I’ll call that a win.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rendezvous? That’s French for Fuckin’!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
“Mongoloid? Who you callin’ a mongoloid?!”
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
TxzK@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
Jerkface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What? I thought it was the main one.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
French bashing is overdone and unfunny
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
that just about describes half the English vocabulary
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven’t recovered.
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 8 months ago
C’est la vie
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
C’est la vie
C’est la guerre
C’est la pomme de terre
Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Déjà vu
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 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 8 months ago
The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 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 8 months ago
La Marseillaise intensifies