Who the fuck decided rendezvous should be pronounced that way?
Randezvous 📅
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spizzat2@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Juice@midwest.social 1 month ago
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
I am polylingual 💖
Tehhund@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m panlingual — I lick all the people.
baines@piefed.social 1 month ago
fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
What logic?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.
baines@piefed.social 1 month ago
look i’m not trying to defend english
french loan words are just worse
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Don’t even get me started on Colonel.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it’s colonel instead!
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Anyone who makes fun of eastern Asian languages for not differentiating between L and R has never compared romance languages.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Which romance languages, at that! They’re all different! Haha
Linnce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Portuguese it’s spelled coronel and pronounced just like that, with the R in the middle. I can’t think of a single word where the L and R interchange. I can’t speak for other romance languages though.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.
Kennystillalive@feddit.org 1 month ago
I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French’s inbread son.
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Your typo has me crumbling. 🥖
luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 month ago
Are you in pain?
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 month ago
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Old English was like a least complicated German. It was the Norman French who fucked it up. Never forget 1066.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Normans just spoke French, it’s everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
That’s a gross simplification.
First, much of said “fucking it up” was done by Norse influence due to all the Danes. Started a bit earlier than 1066, something-something Canute, something-something Danelaw, something-something great pagan army.
Second, Norman French was one of two clearly separable waves of “French” influence, and the commoners’ Germanic language after it was still very different from what happened after the other wave.
Third, that other wave was Angevin French, which, yeah, made a big influence, in huge part because it happened in the time when English kings were trying to conquer much of France for themselves, and didn’t see themselves as English kings really.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
French is an abomination of a language.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
I actually love the few little French loanwords. I will also put my French allies above American heathens always.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Borrows words from other languages”
"Other languages are abominations"
- Brits
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I love how french has somehow become plural, plus if I remember history correctly, french was raped into English.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Poor monolinguals
I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can you explain the joke? It just comes across as an insult to me.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The joke being the word used to describe people who only speak one language is an abomination composed of both greek and latin. Definitely used as an insult, but it’s a clever one.
Although I seriously doubt OOP made that choice on purpose, so the secondary joke here is how they included a massive language blunder in the same comment as they were being a snob about languages.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
linguistics, but yes ;)
MxRemy@piefed.social 1 month ago
It’d be spelled 𐑮𐑪𐑯𐑛𐑱𐑝𐑵 in Shavian script English, is that better?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s easier to read at least, but we loose the etymology.
I also liked the idea of shavian, but I eventually drowsed myself into anglish or what you might call frenchless english or plain english.
MxRemy@piefed.social 1 month ago
I have no idea how practical it is, but I’ve definitely been all-in ever since !shavian@lemmy.world popped up a week ago or so lol. It’s just really pretty looking and fun
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
all french loanwords should be englishized, this weird reluctancy of english to transliterate or adapt the foreign word to it only causes more confusion
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We should write fully phonologically in IPA. You have an accent? Write it down. I want to imagine the voice of the writer better when reading a paper.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Mongoloid would have been funnier.
mrslt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait until they find out what “RSVP” stands for.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Absolutely hate when someone asks me to “rsvp please”.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Redundant acronym syndrome bothers me too. It irks me that the wikipedia page for it is “RAS Syndrome” which in itself is echoing the issue it’s describing. That shit has to be intentional.
It’s like how hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. That’s some fucked up shit. Even it’s more official word “sesquipedalophobia” is still a bit long for anyone who experiences that fear.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
It’s not our fault French was made wrong.
Zephorah@discuss.online 1 month ago
One of my multilingual friends call English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 month 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.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn’t understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they’re bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English “from the outside” for a few minutes.
If you're curious,
I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it’s like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don’t.
If anybody else has had this experience, I’m curious what it was like for you, too.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Hahaha, that’s pretty good!
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling
rendez-vous’s spelling is perfectly regular in french
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
Rawndayvoo.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 month ago
Randy foos
kaulquappus@feddit.org 1 month 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!