I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French's inbread son.
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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.
The Normans just spoke French, it's everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
It's not our fault French was made wrong.
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.
It's spelt colonised
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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 thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
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
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.
In Portuguese it's spelled coronel and pronounced just like that, with the R in the middle. I can't think of a single word where the L and R interchange. I can't speak for other romance languages though.
I'm not thinking specifically of colonel. There are things with Spanish vs Portuguese like plato vs prato, playa vs praia, etc.
Colonel is also actually an example since it uses an L in French but an R in Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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It'd be spelled ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐๐ฑ๐๐ต in Shavian script English, is that better?
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