The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense
that just about describes half the English vocabulary
I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven’t recovered.
at least it doesn’t have random h’s like thorough etc.
Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.
I hate English.
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?
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.
Right? If the pronunciation changes, change the spelling too.
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.
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
French bashing is overdone and unfunny
39 people disagree apparently, not counting me. Humour is subjective after all. If anything, forcing your humour to others is even more overdone imo.
i dont rly care, just saying that its rly annoying and fucking dumb
Well I don’t care about your opinion either. We have so much in common 🥴
Why do you keep answering then
I may not care about your opinions, but I do care about getting that message to you. It’s called communication btw
C’est la vie
C’est la vie
C’est la guerre
C’est la pomme de terre
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.
we stole it from the French
The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.
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Really should have censored the M word.
Only a monolingual can call another monolingual “monolingual”.
How would you like to go to the school councelor?
The FUCK you say to me?
They called you a f*cking bitch
Pretty sure its pronounced mongolian
Mong*lian
Admittedly the way French is pronounced is pretty dumb
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.
How could you say something so controversial yet so true?
Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.
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
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.
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 🤣
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.
As long as you speak the language most used in your country and English then you’re fine
Or russian before 2013.
genocide noises
Windows, planes, tea, door knobs, underpants. Putin will kill all russians untill all die by any means, even starting war.
Was at the airport in Buenos Aires, English didn’t help me. Luckily I had learned a handful of useful phrases in Spanish.
They do speak Benjamin Franklin everywhere though.
It should be spelled “Rondevu”
Rondayvoo
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
kunoese nuts
I believe the proper insult is “Mongoloid” thank you very much!
Monolingoloid
I mean, it’s pronounced like it’s spelled except for the Z.
And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.
Randevu.
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.
‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french
I think it could be spelled rendévou though
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 🤣
Its not pronounced randevou though, more like ron-day-voo
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
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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Those damn mongorians!
That’s one of my all time favourite South park episodes.
Getting the local Chinese restauranteur to build the city wall… because the Chinese are good at building walls.
Shitty walls
“Goddamn Mongorians! Knock down my shitty wall!”
I know some of those words, nice!
edit: added quotes
Ron-Day-Voo
rendezvous /rän′dā-voo͞″, -də-/ noun
- A meeting at a prearranged time and place. synonym: engagement. Similar: engagement
- A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
- A popular gathering place. “The café is a favorite rendezvous for artists.”
monolingual /mŏn″ə-lĭng′gwəl/ adjective
- Using or knowing only one language.
- Using or knowing only one language. Opposite of multilingual. “monolingual speakers; a monolingual dictionary”
- 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.
Mongolic language
Mongolic my balls.
Gottem
Poor *anglophones
What the fuck did you just call me
They called you Angolan
Don’t dis those guys they’re adorable
They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?
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.