Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like “lead” and you don’t even know how to pronounce it!
French culture
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Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
though thoughts are tough.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 17 hours ago
“Thogh thaughts are tuff,” in a more blessèd timeline.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
“I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday”
Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭
Tja@programming.dev 22 hours ago
Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can’t know how to pronounce the second “read” until you get to “yesterday”. Schrödingers pronunciation.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them
“Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tudá.”
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Uh, that is pronounced “lead”. You’re welcome.
JLock17@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
For those illiterates who need a clear example, “lead lead lead.” Simple geography.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As a Spanish speaker, I find it so ironic to see this meme in English…
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
most of the letters
Queue
(and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)
Soup@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Oh. Yeah. Right. Sure. Let’s say that.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
English is fucked up in large part due to being corrupted by the French cancer. If anything we are one of the most qualified to talk shit about them.
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Nope, pretty sure French politics should get a crying face (saying this as a French citizen)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I think historical, and the seriousness of it (guillotines, etc)
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
Pssshh whatever, can’t be mad at a language that contains pamplemousse
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Cramouille is the best french word
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not pictured: French aircraft design
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Like the Concorde?
Soup@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.
If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I was thinking their inter-war bomber designs, and their early attempts at fighters post WWII
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 day ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 17 hours ago
And Dishonored, Rayman, Another World…
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
French culture my ass.
Paris is an overpriced amusement park where all the employee hate you.
Give me Italy any day.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Fun fact: countries consist of more than one city.
Additional information: there are cultural differences between different regions in the same country, even between different cities and towns in the same region! Imagine that!
Vermingot@jlai.lu 19 hours ago
Reparle de paris encore une seule fois batard et j’enverrai ta tête tellement loin qu’elle aura le temps de faire tout le tour de la dinguerie géologique et culturelle qu’est la France avant de retomber dans le Limousin où ta tête finira ses jours paisiblement entourée de jolies vaches.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I can make up nonsense words too.
Genius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Well alright, but have you considered that Voltaire is really good?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That guy who made fun of French institutions?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
See also: French rap
loutr@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Yeah, if you only do touristy stuff you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s like saying NYC sucks when you’ve only visited Time Square.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
C’est la vie
Yukily@jlai.lu 14 hours ago
Abadakor !!!
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
French toast
tino@lemmy.world 1 day ago
French don’t know about French toasts.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We know it, it’s called pain perdu.
wanderwisley@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
You could say I have to take a shit in French and it would sound smooth as hell. -Eddy Murphy.
guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
J’dois aller chier calisse
samus12345@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
According to French scientists, the best thing to wipe ones’ ass with is the neck of a well-downed gosling.
…blogspot.com/…/rabelais-ultimate-arse-wiper.html
(not actually scientists but a character in 16th century writer Rabelais’ book.)
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I once heard from a friend learning French that the way to say that you are in the process of doing something literally translated to ‘I am on the train to [doing the thing]’. Is that correct?
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution “en train de [verbe]”, en train has the 15th century meaning of “in action”, “in movement”, this predates the invention of the railroad :)
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Wait, woah, so the term ‘train’ is from the French work for ‘motion’, essentially? That’s kind of a dub.
Genius@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’m well on the way to writing that report, boss
Our company is on the road to developing those features
I’m on the path to forgiving you
Camille@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Native here, yep it is correct and idiomatic. “Je suis en train de [faire la chose]”
grue@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
As a person learning French, I think it’s more closely related to “training” or “entrain.”
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
youtu.be/VNLrCWCv38Y this might change your mind about the French language…it sure showed me where it shines.
Beautiful song, beautifully sung.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
quaso
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
have you seen french politics? like actually?
i know that when compared to the US it may as well be a socialist utopia but french politics are awful. france is one of the countries most responsible for imperialism and colonialism.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Really it’s more that French politicians are properly accountable to the people, who will protest and strike frequently. That’s what makes French politics great, not the leaders but the citizens.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t know how much you know about France, and french politics specifically, but as a person born in France I want to tell you that you might have been mislead… From my point of view and with my knowledge, politics here is a shit show, basically the elite mock everyone, France is run by billionaires, happily oppressing the poor.
tino@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, politicians don’t give a shit about people striking. And the biggest haters of strikes are the citizens who don’t like their life and privileges to be disturbed by people striking for their rights.