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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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!
Your typo has me crumbling. 🥖
Are you in pain?
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
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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One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn't understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they're bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English "from the outside" for a few minutes.
If you're curious,
I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it's like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don't.
If anybody else has had this experience, I'm curious what it was like for you, too.
Haven't tried.
There was an italian singer that made an "american" song with made up words, it was a huge hit apparently. Like in the sixties or something, might give you the feeling of it too.
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it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling
rendez-vous’s 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 Language®
First they came for our pronouns.
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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
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
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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