it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didnāt change the spelling
rendez-vousās spelling is perfectly regular in french
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RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com āØ15ā© āØhoursā© ago
Itās not our fault French was made wrong.
it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didnāt change the spelling
rendez-vousās spelling is perfectly regular in french
Rawndayvoo.
Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American LanguageĀ®
I would love to see how this shook out when the British start getting possessive about their language in petty retribution. US adopts āhick hoodratā as itās first language?
Careful, Col. Hans Landa might notice the accent.
Randy foos
[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception from the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tellāem!
Zephorah@discuss.online āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
One of my multilingual friends call English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
I hate it honestly. The french spent centuries ruling England and messing up our language just for the rest of the world to make fun of us for it as if itās our fault.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
āWah, Iām the British, and Iām upset about being colonizedā thatās what you sound like
deHaga@feddit.uk āØ4ā© āØhoursā© ago
Itās spelt colonised
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
Iām american but the romans and french taught them how to do it.
And if anyone calls me british ever again there will be consequences
HowAbt2day@futurology.today āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
Nice try Mr. Italiano.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social āØ13ā© āØhoursā© ago
Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto
wander1236@sh.itjust.works āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
Donāt forget the ancient Latin that a bunch of scholars pulled in during the 1600s because the French descendants werenāt fancy enough.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world āØ14ā© āØhoursā© ago
It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe āØ12ā© āØhoursā© ago
Hahaha, thatās pretty good!