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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.

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always has that Jeni Se Qkwuouagh (lemmy.today)
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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When you don't know how to spell a French word, just dump your whole hand of Scrabble tiles on the table, I guess.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And then bone-apple-tea!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Voegh-ah-lugh!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What did Vonnegut do?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everything is pronounced "fart" anyways

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hon hon

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

wanna hear a joke? what does je ne sais quoi mean?

"I don't know, what?"

thanks.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Oh that's what they are saying. I really couldn't work it out

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Jenny say kwhaa~~?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

je ne sais quoi

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Get a load of Mr Worldwide over here

[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well la di dah Mr Frenchman

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you call it?

[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

A car hole

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Jenny says quaff? Huh?

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All the people here in the comments think they’re Judge Judy and executioner.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

would be awesome to have a tv judge execute people on the spot, specifically billionaires

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Nothing stopping you from spicing-up tv talent shows with judges that can execute. Put some real tension in to those sing-offs.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

But I knew what they were trying to say without any thought. So I mean not that bad lol.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

!boneappletea@lemmy.world is a real place

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sure is pal, one of these days we'll make it there

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't even fucking pronounce that. "Jenny say quwoah"???

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sweet jesus, that's Anglo-Onomatopoeic-French!

The entirety of western Europe just gave a collective shudder.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

France: We would appreicate it if more visitors spoke a little more French

OP: I know, since a lot of people know English, we'll teach it with English phonetics so they can understand it better.

Phrahnse: No, not like that.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Phrahnse

OMG! Thank you so much for this! 😂

[–] Mok98@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fish written with english phonetics is pot, which is extremely cursed and why the english phonetics mustn't be used, ever.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Whilst we're on the subject of 'fish' bring spelt weird, Ghoti (wiki link) is a "cursed" spelling (though not a phonetic one).

[–] cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hon hon

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somewhere in the world Jeni Se Qkwuouagh is very confused by this.

[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's the kind of name a 90s Klingon from Utah would give their kid.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

When I'm 14th of French actually

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

What the fuckety fuck.

THAT is the most cursed thing I've seen in a while. Thank you.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jenny say what?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

That she has a gun?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

not enough people know about Joan's No-Stakes War, and it shows

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Is this a new Godfrey Reggio movie?