It's not our fault French was made wrong.
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One of my multilingual friends called English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
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.
"Wah, I'm the British, and I'm upset about being colonized" that's what you sound like
I'm american but the romans and french taught them how to do it.
And if anyone calls me british ever again there will be consequences
Oh no, an american threatening consequences. What are you going to do, impose tariffs?
This reply is art.
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Nice try, but if you were really american, you'd spell it conzequences.
Nice try Mr. Italiano.
Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto
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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it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didnโt change the spelling
rendez-vousโs pronounciation is perfectly regular in french
Rawndayvoo.
Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Languageยฎ
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[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception to the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell'em!
I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French's inbread son.
Your typo has me crumbling. ๐ฅ
Are you in pain?
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
Old English was like a less-complicated German. It was the Norman French who fucked it up. Never forget 1066.
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.
The Normans just spoke French, it's everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
Don't even get me started on Colonel.
I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it's colonel instead!
Anyone who makes fun of eastern Asian languages for not differentiating between L and R has never compared romance languages.
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Poor monolinguals
I'm choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
Can you explain the joke? It just comes across as an insult to me.
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fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
What logic?
You know, the logic that has a word like "knight" where half of the letters are silent.
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I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it's stupid to write "EAU" to say "O".
all french loanwords should be englishized, this weird reluctancy of english to transliterate or adapt the foreign word to it only causes more confusion
It'd be spelled ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐๐ฑ๐๐ต in Shavian script English, is that better?
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