Comment on Randezvous 📅

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of my multilingual friends call English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 it’s our fault.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Wah, I’m the British, and I’m upset about being colonized” that’s what you sound like

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      • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m american but the romans and french taught them how to do it.

        And if anyone calls me british ever again there will be consequences

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s spelt colonised

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    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice try Mr. Italiano.

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the ancient Latin that a bunch of scholars pulled in during the 1600s because the French descendants weren’t fancy enough.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn’t understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they’re bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English “from the outside” for a few minutes.

    If you're curious,

    I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it’s like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don’t.

    If anybody else has had this experience, I’m curious what it was like for you, too.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haven’t tried.

      There was an italian singer that made an “american” song with made up words, it was a huge hit apparently. Like in the sixties or something, might give you the feeling of it too.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hahaha, that’s pretty good!

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling

  rendez-vous’s spelling is perfectly regular in french

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rawndayvoo.

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    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Language®

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      • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would love to see how this shook out when the British start getting possessive about their language in petty retribution. US adopts “hick hoodrat” as it’s first language?

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        First they came for our pronouns.

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    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Careful, Col. Hans Landa might notice the accent.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Randy foos

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• kaulquappus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  [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 tell’em!

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