Randezvous 📅

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• yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Poor monolinguals

  I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke

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• spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who the fuck decided rendezvous should be pronounced that way?

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not our fault French was made wrong.

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  • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hahaha, that’s pretty good!

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rawndayvoo.

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Randy foos

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  • kaulquappus@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• MxRemy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’d be spelled 𐑮𐑪𐑯𐑛𐑱𐑝𐑵 in Shavian script English, is that better?

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  French is an abomination of a language.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I actually love the few little French loanwords. I will also put my French allies above American heathens always.

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  • Damerlen@feddit.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Moi j’aime bien.

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am polylingual 💖

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• baines@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fuck all french origin words in english

  they all behave counter to the rest of english logic

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What logic?

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion

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• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t even get me started on Colonel.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it’s colonel instead!

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anyone who makes fun of eastern Asian languages for not differentiating between L and R has never compared romance languages.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which romance languages, at that! They’re all different! Haha

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  • pet1t@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you mean “kornul”?

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kernuhl

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• Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mongoloid would have been funnier.

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