Randezvous 📅

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not our fault French was made wrong.

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  • Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hahaha, that’s pretty good!

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  • carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rawndayvoo.

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Randy foos

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  • kaulquappus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who the fuck decided rendezvous should be pronounced that way?

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ew :(

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    • bored_gamer@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kys.

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am polylingual 💖

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    • Tehhund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m panlingual — I lick all the people.

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• Kennystillalive@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French’s inbread son.

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  • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your typo has me crumbling. 🥖

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    • luciferofastora@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you in pain?

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    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Old English was like a least complicated German. It was the Norman French who fucked it up. Never forget 1066.

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    • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Normans just spoke French, it’s everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• baines@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What logic?

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.

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    • baines@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      look i’m not trying to defend english

      french loan words are just worse

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• its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t even get me started on Colonel.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Linnce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • pet1t@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you mean “kornul”?

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kernuhl

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  French is an abomination of a language.

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  • Damerlen@feddit.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Moi j’aime bien.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Moi aussi.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Borrows words from other languages”

    "Other languages are abominations"

    • Brits

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love how french has somehow become plural, plus if I remember history correctly, french was raped into English.

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• yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Poor monolinguals

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

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you explain the joke? It just comes across as an insult to me.

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    • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    linguistics, but yes ;)

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• MxRemy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • libre_warrior@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • MxRemy@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know all about etymology and language evolution.

  I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.

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  • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mongoloid would have been funnier.

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait until they find out what “RSVP” stands for.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Absolutely hate when someone asks me to “rsvp please”.

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    • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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