This reminds me of when I worked in a café years ago. We had this smug woman that would try to correct our pronunciation of French words but say them wrong herself. Croissant for her was “quasant”. Cafe au lait was “Caf ah light”. She would do that until we hired a Quebecois student from the local college who responded to her corrections with fluent French.
I am el french
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therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller’s Day Off.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Awwww.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You need to rrrrroll the arrrr, bro.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I only eat croissant from the supermarket. The only way I’m ordering one from a real place is if I pretend im deaf, point at what I want and then hand them money.
Pronounce it right? Pretentious twat. Pronounce it wrong? What a moron.
Guess I’m eating donuts again.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
That’s why I don’t interact with people. No matter what your say or do, or how you say or do it, they’ll judge you for it.
In my mid-twenties I decided to stop giving a fuck. People only judged me harder until I was forced to acknowledge their judgement and comply with their scripted behavioral norms, and then they judged me for that too.
I got tired of it, so lately I don’t go anywhere there’s people. I need something, I order it. Groceries delivered. The shut-in life is the life for me.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You need to learn the power of not caring what people think of you, right to their face. It’s great. I treat everyone in a friendly way unless they get physical, then I treat them like a rambunctious toddler. In Australia, that works pretty well, ymmv.
The friendliness (and my white tall male privilege) means they almost never do get physical btw. Obviously if you’re tiny, it’s a different story, but I do know tiny women who follow the same strategy and get by pretty well.
It’s weird at first, staying friendly with someone who shouts at you, or calls you a dumb cunt, or insults your physical appearance, etc. But it gets more natural over time, and it seriously confuses some people in an entertaining way.
The overall advantage is that you don’t have to dress to expectations, or act according to most of the arbitrary rules of a particular situation unless you want to. You can just be your own person, treat people simply as people, and exist.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Where the hell did the “Rrrrrr” go? That’s the key!
Twongo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
as a yuropean: how else do you pronounce it?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Croissant
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Am French, can confirm this is the right way to pronounce it.
Spooge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Me: Le crescent roll.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 days ago
How can english-speaking people say “CRUcifix” or “CREscent” but can’t say “CROAsan” ? (the final ‘t’ of “croissant” is mute. So is the final “t” in “Bon appétit”)
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Totally different R sound in English crucifix and French croissant.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 days ago
El fronsch!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Cheese du fromunch
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
For those who dont understand the difference, a lot of english speaking people say it as if you had the cra part from lucrative and then an s sound and after that the word ant. So it sounds like this cra-s-ant(not totally but its hard to describe in a way that someone without ipa knowledge would understand). While the actual french pronounciation is like(once again quite hard to describe) kwah-sah(the sah is kinda like when you pronounce balsa) and the important part is that theres a release of air from the nostrils when pronouncing the sah part, almost like if the a and an n merged. This is often written with a tilda(~) written on top of the vowel(ã in this case) which literally comes from and n that was shoved on top of the preceeding vowel.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Franz Hose
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
When you grew up in suburban North Carolina and your high school French teacher was a southern belle and self-proclaimed “chauvinist piglet” so to this very day you perley vew freyansay.
Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Omsterdom
rethnor@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
This picture is giving my an aneurysm. The cat looks like it’s walking toward me and to the left, the wall is on is going away to the left, and the tower is again going to opposite.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Giving real Prices Donut vibes
Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
croysent
Localhorst86@feddit.org 3 days ago
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 days ago
How else would you pronounce it? Is there a state between being aware of croissants and knowing how the word is pronounced where the accepted pronunciation is “kroy-sent” or something?
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If you are speaking English the correct pronunciation is different than if you are speaking French.
Similar to Paris, information, service, raisin, journal, and many, many other words that are used in both languages.
The English word croissant is pronounced something like krə-sänt, though I’m sure there’s plenty of regional variation.
Jimbo@pawb.social 3 days ago
US would say something like Criss-ant, UK would say something like Criss-ont
MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place 3 days ago
My family in the Pacific Northwest settled on Crah-saunt (both ah and au being long A’s, like in raw)
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Image
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Where I live (Canada, not Quebec) we mostly either do a mocking pronunciation similar to the OP or “cruh-SONT” if we’re pronouncing it normally.
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
“Cruzzant” out in regional Australia
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Big ol cruzzi
valar@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
In American English, its usually something like cross-aunt
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
kroissantti🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
KROIssanttti
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Crescent roll
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Krussant
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Crows Aunt
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 days ago
CrawSahnt is hor I would transliterate the American pronunciation. With the emphasis on the second syllable.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
The have a whole thing about doing their own pronunciations because using the original one from the language they are borrowing from is apparently either pretentious or racist depending on how superior they feel.