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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyday I don’t speak French is a blessed day

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• CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok so for those of us not fluent in French, could you translate “La Rôche Posay” for us so we stop chortling like middle schoolers?

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a normal O, no accent. It’s the name of a place, not really translatable. The argument is, prononciation of “posay” is nowhere near to “pussy” if you pronounce it the regular French way.

    It’s prononced more like “pause-hay”.

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    • Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So, pronouncing pussy but in a funny exaggerated way? I’m imaging Turk from scrubs describing what he did over the weekend to JD.

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      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a “O” sound followed by a “Z” sound. So, if you have a really, really weird way of pronouncing “pussy”, I guess.

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  • Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So basically, it’s the name of a village, and they have rocks there.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about the translation, it’s about the pronunciation.

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• snowdriftissue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Je ne comprends pas

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• percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🤔 how much of the world population do you think understands French? I would guess less than 10%. Maybe even <5%.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the forth most popular language in the world.

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    • percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but that doesn’t answer the question, does it?

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do French speakers require non French speakers to speak French? Why do French speakers feel entitled to belittle others for not speaking a cumbersome language of limited use and value, largely irrelevant to the vast majority of earthlings?

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Replace “french” with “English” and you know how non-english speakers feel on most of the Internet. The point is, this joke only makes sense if you’re very familiar with English pronunciation (and only some specific accents, I might add) and/or don’t instinctively read the French brand name the French way.

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    • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t go to non-English speaking websites and start demanding everybody speak English with me though.

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      • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The whole point of the post is to make fun of a French product that has a French name. Why are we as English speakers allowed to make fun of how other languages sound to us? Then, separately, we have no need to know how they’re actually pronounced or what they mean? What gives us that privilege, without anyone else being allowed to comment otherwise? Are we that exclusive?

        I’m not sure what the argument is, but the original comment simply stated that the joke only makes sense if you don’t know French (I also don’t know French, and it took me 5 seconds to find out that “la roche” means the “rock,” so i realized oh they’re making fun of how French sounds).

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You sound like an ignorant American.

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