You sound like an ignorant American.
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pigup@lemmy.world 8 hours agoWhy 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?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.
pigup@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I don’t go to non-English speaking websites and start demanding everybody speak English with me though.
abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 21 minutes 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).