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Edit 1: “send nudes” is only a myth
Mar 13, 2019 12:37 AM
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Edit 1: “send nudes” is only a myth
nuwil
It's still a good question. Why did the French decide they needed all those extra letters?
DoomedFone
Because we don't reuse the same letter combination to sound like five other sounds.
kapitioctopus
I resemble that comment. Im a monolingual but i know about both of the other languages.
Acefowl
Damn Mongolians! Always trying to destroy my shitty wall!
doctorofOT2017
Calling someone a mongoloid used to be a derogatory term for people with Down syndrome. Fun fact
Acefowl
I've heard that word for years, but I never knew that about it. Thank you for the info!
thelaaaaaw
sittingonthetube4
Mongoloid
Scout70
StayBullish
...AN ASSHOLE!
Smayds
Haven't seen Bueller since the 90's. Heard Cameron's voice saying this.
Exowe
Technically "pardon" is French so it works
wellthisjustgotinteresting
It's an English word, it just comes from a French root. Like, "arachnid" is an English word, even though it comes from Greek.
Swedash
Just because it's an English word doesn't mean it isn't a French one.
UnicronJLY
Yeah, there are other languages than English, but it's all the same alphabet. The letters should make the same sounds.
UnicronJLY
Personally, I think the French are just still mad at the Romans for invading Gaul and use the Latin alphabet wrong on purpose.
madmatt2024
I personally think that when a word from one language is used in another that it should be spelled according to the rules of that language.
ChristopheDeMeyer
In addition, it spells "Rendez-vous"!
craycray606
Blame the French
FoeWest
I totoally read mongoloid
Namotatop
"poor monolinguals" she said, growing another pair of lacroix water from her back hair while caressing her "live, laugh, love" sign.
Namotatop
Partway through this comment I stopped identifying with it but I decided it was already too beautiful to give up at that point.
SmellingThePsychosphere
But English is truly the creme de la creme of languages.
LeSethX
It's the true franca lingua of this age.
irlborat
It has all the dumb rules of German and retarded silent letters of French. Truly the language in which God speaks.
CassiusPolybius
Look. English may be an absolute mess, but at least it doesn't mangle the roman alphabet *too* badly. Now, french and gaelic OTOH...
BronzeLeaguePro
But French *is* a roman language. Gaelic has clear ortographic rules. English is "See this letter? It can be pronounced seven ways."
BlackavarLion
Missing a great opportunity creme de le cream. :p
preaction
It's definitely the lingua franca of the modern world
OaksParcel
The real "crayon mécanique" of the tongue
ElaineTheNPC
We've been trying to convince each other of that here in Asia for decades. It's not going so well (yet?).
HypoMix
it just has that je ne sais pas that makes it the language de jure
SatansLeftNipple
It’s so avant-garde. Like haute couture.
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
Vikings are just seafaring Mongolians, anyway.
kaidox1971
p.s. Rendez-vous not rendezvous
PinkEater
What did the monologue ever say about that guy anyway.
JDtheAmazzzing
That is a decent synthesizer for the price point
Souljah42
"Rendezvous?" ... But no one ever showed up.
Vungor
Rende-who's?
Notareptilian
Don't bring Kylie Minogue into this
boomgoesthedynamite85
Mongoloid
SlightlyBlackerTactleNeck
What are you talking about? The Mozambique is great
Realborisboef
The monocle?
LadybirdBrown
Monolinguist
pogoblaster
Cunning linguist
TheMonkeyIsLoose
Cunnalinguist?
amothertruckingunicorn
Cunnilingus
ViviiD
1066 never forget
iostream64
I mean to be fair french is probably even less phonetic than english
IAmBiGiveMeAMedal
I'm not terribly convinced Cathy Jo ISN'T monolingual herself. Frankly, I'm surprised she has the one language.
nevadajim
Cathy Jo looks like she needs to be smacked.
Jusmar
She?
Alfadorfox
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/64300925/that-would-be-the-french.jpg
ProbablyNotMegatron
I know other languages exist but it’s not like every word in English just comes straight from other languages. I can say rondayvoo if I want
SoGrosslyIncandescent
wait. wait wait wait.....there's a different way to pronounce it?
FinscothDennehy
Well, there's the actual French way of pronouncing it. That being said, I don't think the person you replied to got the point.
oddoregano
It'd still be french
HandsomeJack19
I see his rendezvous and raise him: hors d'oeuvres.
MarkPenrice
I think it's high time we called a language conference & had a word with French about its consistent failure to vocalise terminal consonants
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MarkPenrice
Eh, theyre allowed some variation in pronunciation, thats a fairly widespread thing. But most languages dont routinely cut off the end of wo
H2O52
Non
BronzeLeaguePro
But the terminal vowels give you information about the word, aiding you in conjugating it, and pronouncing it next to other words.
glaug
les gilets jaunes protestent parce que les baguettes ne sont pas assez longues
MarkPenrice
Well you would, wouldn't you.
morelikeconsham
Yeah, Cathy Jo thinks she's being really clever, but you'll notice that not many people complain about how weird spanish pronunciations are.
MarkPenrice
They kinda are, but only from an anglophone perspective. Objectively, rather more logical and consistent than English itself.
morelikeconsham
At the very least, letters tend to have consistent pronunciations, and silent letters (H) are quite rare, though also consistent.
MarkPenrice
Until you go to the Canaries of course, where a lot of the rules change. Not sure the H is even entirely silent there.
Zalminen
As if English can talk about consistent pronunciation.
ReginaKasteen
We'd have perfectly consistent spelling if we were still Germanic. It's all French's fault. (Well, mostly.)
imgfox
Sword and Knight are most certainly not the fault of the French.
Zalminen
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html
KABARU
It's still a valid question as far as I am concerned. Who was the first person to say it? Why did they pick that way and not another?
preaction
There are actual answers to these questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language
gotwokenupbyneighboursat6AM
Interesting!
Exowe
Rendez-vous is French, and the wierd way of saying it is just English trying to sound French.
EroticZombiePants
Well that other language is stupid and don't know how letters work.
Ismellofhockey
Unlike English where rough rhymes with tough but bough with bow and cough with off, don't say read when you meant to say read, were not...
EroticZombiePants
English is stupid because we stole a bunch of words from a bunch of languages that don't know how letters work.
Ismellofhockey
Ah, makes sense :) Damn idiot languages should have had better things for us to steal.
Ismellofhockey
where, and neither rhymes with here.
bonetonelord
"Why did the French decide to pronounce it that way?" is still a valid question.
BronzeLeaguePro
French is a Vulgar language, so they inherited Vulgar pronounciations of things.
lauraInternetJunkie
Mostly from latin, then we got lazy to pronounce everything, plus some other influences (greek, barbarian invasions, germanic influences...)
lauraInternetJunkie
As for rendez-vous, it basically mean "go" as vous is the formal you and rendez comes from the verb "se rendre" meaning for oneself to go
lauraInternetJunkie
somewhere (among other meanings, like "capitulate"). So rendez-vous is basically "go there". Why we have nasal letter combination (en, an,
lauraInternetJunkie
un, in,on) I don't know. For the silent letters and shorter pronunciations, it's because it's easier to say and easiest on the ear. We like
lauraInternetJunkie
things to be pretty. For example, we have letters that only serve the purpose of smoothing the sentence. Like "Que l'on se le dise". The l'
SofaKingSpecial
Cathy Jo doesn’t strike me as someone I’d invite to a bbq.
Q1321415
Maybe a spitroast
AwkwardKeming
Yeah, now that you mention it she does seem like she's probably vegan.
FirstThingThatCameToMind
poor mono-eatists, they cant seem to understand that other foods besides kale exist.
DeadArcadian
I checked her twitter and nothing about meat, but she desperately wishes she was hispanic i think
SitDownAndStudy
How dare you rob her of the chance to tell you that herself.
Noodleskadoodle
Don’t forget her and her partner are crossfitters
thenameisTone
Probably has lengthy conversations with managers of all kinds of retail and hospitality establishments.
GrossIncandescence
Also she seems like an asshole.
TylerFarts
Amazing. I’m giving this comment 10 Goldblums out of a possible 10 Goldblums.
GrossIncandescence
ActuallyMyNamesMarina
To answer, the French. Blame the french for all of your linguistic woes.
Datimgurtho
Blame the French for everything with their baguettes, crepes and constant surrendering
AnonyLlamas
ForlornFennec
I was wondering if there was a gif of that particular bit...
AnonyLlamas
I found it on another site and uploaded it, just so I could use it here.
WastelandPuppy
Sooo, Worcestershire is in France, I guess?
whoopsidaz
You can tell it's French because they pronounce fewer than half the letters.
ElSephiroth
Funny thing is, english borrowed «meme» from french and no one say it right. Everybody uses a weird accent for it
DinoKebab
Specifically the Normans.
kapitioctopus
Wee
TinoFly
And names like Jack = Jacques ect
juoji
Nah, it's not us, blame posh and rich brits who thought french was classy and decided to learn 2-3 hundred years ago
Irreal
Nobility spoke French since you invaded them.
idothebareminimum
I hate the French!
Lifk
To be fair a lot of the english language come from french
Exowe
Weird thing is, I speak french but when I say "rendez-vous" in english sentences I pronounce it with the english-try-to-sound-french accent.
ChemicalPorpoise
It's like seeing italics for a word in text, but in audio.
dxGGxb
Ever tried to use "double entendre"... took me a year or so do understand what natives english speakers meant!
BabyWitchErika
As a french canadian, I usualy just say appointment, to avoid having to talk about how akward that word is in english.
Sebofthelandofsleep
I do this with a lot of words. And I do the equivalent in French when I say an English word in there.
gloupin
Same here. English badly stole several French words and it is super hard sometimes to have to mispronounce them.on purpose
L4dyH4v0c
rendezvous ahh french I remember that hell in school you never read the S on the back fuck the z and the a is an e WHYYYY
DerelictTwitterCrash
As a French :
ActuallyMyNamesMarina
I have no qualms with the people, but 'tis a silly language. Granted, so is English, but still.
DerelictTwitterCrash
French is hard and messy for foreigners, it gets worse when you begin to write it correctly and learn the "subtilities" of exceptions.
LeSethX
TheDudzzly
https://imgur.com/FovAxnr
pakichtu
At least if you know the rules you can logically deduce the sound of most words you read in French. In English you can't do that!
LeSethX
Every language has exceptions to their rules. Tho English and Chinese are supposed to be the 2 hardest to learn
BronzeLeaguePro
The ortography in oiseaux is perfectly clear. Just like Eyjafjallajökull. However, words like "enough"? WHY THE FUCK DOES GH MAKE F? WTF.
ArdentSlacker
WT...GH? :D
OmnibusLatinName
ghoti... fish
blameitonmyjuice
Where Tommy Wiseau got his name from
blameitonmyjuice
SatansLeftNipple
Que-est que c’est, s’il vous plaît?
Exowe
La triste vérité :(
AnAverageJho
Des conneries plutôt mdr
Iullabee
qu'est-ce que c'est ("que est" -> "e e" -> contraction -> qu'est | "ce" because you need a subject in the first sentence ("que c'est" is 1/3
Iullabee
another sentence, "que" being a subordinating conjunction). could be simplified/shortened to "qu'est-ce ?" (which is correct but not 2/3
Iullabee
used anymore due to being old). welcome to french language.