Comment on Randezvous 📅

its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it’s colonel instead!

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• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone who makes fun of eastern Asian languages for not differentiating between L and R has never compared romance languages.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which romance languages, at that! They’re all different! Haha

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  • Linnce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Portuguese it’s spelled coronel and pronounced just like that, with the R in the middle. I can’t think of a single word where the L and R interchange. I can’t speak for other romance languages though.

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    • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not thinking specifically of colonel. There are things with Spanish vs Portuguese like plato vs prato, playa vs praia, etc.

      Colonel is also actually an example since it uses an L in French but an R in Spanish and Portuguese.

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• pet1t@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you mean “kornul”?

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kernuhl

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.

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