• Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.

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      whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense

      that just about describes half the English vocabulary

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            Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.

            I hate English.

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              The funniest about this is that I once watched a video on interesting languages to learn and they were like “this language is super interesting because you spell everything the same as you pronounce it”… yeah like any normal language?

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                I understand languages get to change over time and once upon a time edinborough was actually pronounced close to it’s spelling, not the butchered edinbra of today. But why the fuck hasn’t the spelling catch up completely puzzles me, since no other language I’ve heard of has issues to the same degree.

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      Honestly, the original question was a good one. That snarky reply in the original picture was pretty douchey. There’s a lot of interesting history behind linguistics.

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          You leave potatoes out of this. They are literally the food of gods and glorious when fried!

          Edit: I grew up on a farm next to a small river in Minnesota called Pomme de Terre. And due the light sandy soil, it was excellent for growing pomme de terres and sugar beets.

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      11 months ago

      we stole it from the French

      The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.

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    In Viking’s defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.

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      Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.

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      I recently saw a tiktok (therefore I’m an expert) that showed that Old French was pronounced pretty much exactly how it was spelled.

      Every language simplifies it’s pronunciation over time, but usually they alter the spelling when they do, but French just said “miss me with that shit, dog” and decided just to change the rules about pronunciation instead

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        Probably yes, but the rules are simple enough today that you don’t need a PhD to explain though thought, or tie vs tier, or… wait for it… live vs live, or record vs record, read vs read.

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          Consistent and simple aren’t the same thing.

          That being said, English is neither of those things, so it’s a bad comparison to make 🤣

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    So are they aware that they’re trying to shame a joke account that’s already doing a bit?

    Do they think they’re winning? Are they in on the bit? What sort of cataclysm has to happen for Twitter people to wake up and go “oh my god, I WAS THE ASSHOLE THIS ENTIRE TIME, WHAT AM I DOING HERE”?

    I’m glad I get to wipe my ass with what’s left of them without having to touch their vile community, I’ll call that a win.

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    Kuno:

    who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that

    You:

    Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist

    Kuno:

    what the fuck did you just call me

    Kunoesse:

    He called you Mongolian

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      And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.

      Randevu.

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        In French, words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”. “ou” (in la Métropole) is similar to the sound in English “do”/“too”/“sue”/“shoe” etc. while “u” is similar to Standard German long “ü”/“üh” like in “Lüge” but the German one is relatively reduced and isn’t quite as frontal/strained/constricted.

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        ‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french

        I think it could be spelled rendévou though

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        I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.

        English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣

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        Randevu

        interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

        in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

        just a funny sidenote :3

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          Oh they are so smart, just like I don’t know, most countries in the world that don’t prefer imperial units and imperial era spelling

          (The sarcasm is not directed to turkish though 😁)

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    I know some of those words, nice!


    edit: added quotes

    Ron-Day-Voo

    rendezvous /rän′dā-voo͞″, -də-/ noun

    1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. synonym: engagement. Similar: engagement
    2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
    3. A popular gathering place. “The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.”

    monolingual /mŏn″ə-lĭng′gwəl/ adjective

    1. Using or knowing only one language.
    2. Using or knowing only one language. Opposite of multilingual. “monolingual speakers; a monolingual dictionary”
    3. Knowing, or using a single language.

    Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East and North Asia. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 6.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia of China. In Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolian is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian script. In Inner Mongolia, it is dialectally more diverse and written in the traditional Mongolian script. However, Mongols in both countries often use the Latin script for convenience on the Internet.

    Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. The western extremity of Mongolia is only 37 km from Kazakhstan, and this area can resemble a quadripoint when viewed on a map. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres, with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world’s most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world’s largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea, and much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country’s population. The territory of modern-day Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the First Turkic Khaganate, the Second Turkic Khaganate, the Uyghur Khaganate and others.

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    They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?

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      I met a couple in Vanuatu - one of the world’s most language dense nations - whose mother tongues were mutually unintelligible, so they communicated using the country’s official language, Bislama. A lot of bilingual people don’t speak English. Plenty of Eastern Europeans don’t speak English (unpopular during communist rule) but speak say German or Russian as well as Serbocroatian or whatever.