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• raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  French is when people speak sloppy Latin uncorrected for 1500 years

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be precise, it’s when Celts speak sloppy Latin. Even the silly way they say 80 as 4x20 comes from the Gauls.

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Know what ? Yeah that’s the best description I’ve seen so far. So much for civilizing the Gaul

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    • ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That one damn remaining village…

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• Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eau…I see.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder when French took the wrong path, because it seems un explainable to me how we end up from Latin’s “aqua” to French’s “eau”

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One plausible etymology is:

    aqua > agua > egua > ewa > ewe > eawe > eaw > eau > o

    So first the k sound changed to a g, then the initial a became an e, which lengthened to a diphthong, the final sound disappeared, the new final sound turned from a consonant into a vowel (like an oo) and the resulting triphthong reduced to a monophthong.

    The elision of medial g is pretty surprising to me though.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you sure that the Q is supposed to be read like a K? It does not seem to be the case in other neo-latin languages such as Italian and IIRC Spanish

      i am not a latin expert– i barelly know it in fact, btw

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    here is a whole video on that exact topic

    Aqua ➡️ eau is one of the explained examples 😁

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you!

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder when French took the wrong path,

    When did Caesar invade Transalpine Gaul?

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• mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  theres also un oeil ( 1 eye) vs les yeux (2 eyes) like wtf. or my favorite: poisson for fish. Fish is poisoned !

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Germans are a lot worse by these standards ! “Poison” is “gift”

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  • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just don’t piscine the pool.

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• Bronelius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This cat and Andrew Tate look like they are related

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• peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is pretty much my experience attempting to learn french. I can’t pronounce it worth a damn either.

  Bout ready to toss it out, say fuck it, and switch to Italian.

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• Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  God, I hate that retarded cat meme so much…

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  • beep@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s actually a cat coughing.

    At least, that’s what I heard.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s actually a kid coughing photoshopped onto the face of a cat.

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• k2r@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s even stranger in French is we have adjective like “aqueux”

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• dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  French is ass (so is english, but less)

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