Comment on Randezvous 📅
baines@piefed.social 15 hours ago
fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
Comment on Randezvous 📅
baines@piefed.social 15 hours ago
fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
What logic?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion
edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.