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[-] Xtallll 103 points 9 months ago

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

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 43 points 9 months ago

yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

What? I thought it was the main one.

[-] seliaste 4 points 9 months ago

French bashing is overdone and unfunny

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

39 people disagree apparently, not counting me. Humour is subjective after all. If anything, forcing your humour to others is even more overdone imo.

[-] seliaste 3 points 9 months ago

i dont rly care, just saying that its rly annoying and fucking dumb

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Well I don't care about your opinion either. We have so much in common 🥴

[-] seliaste 1 points 9 months ago

Why do you keep answering then

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

I may not care about your opinions, but I do care about getting that message to you. It's called communication btw

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 9 months ago

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

that just about describes half the English vocabulary

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven't recovered.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

at least it doesn't have random h's like thorough etc.

[-] Kiwi_Girl 9 points 9 months ago

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

I hate English.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Right? If the pronunciation changes, change the spelling too.

[-] tkc@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I've always heard it pronounced per-ogative, not prr-ogative

[-] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Прерогатива. More spelling for you.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago
[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

C'est la vie

C'est la guerre

C'est la pomme de terre

[-] miss_brainfarts 6 points 9 months ago

Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you'd use la

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

ah ok i will go fix it

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Don’t tell me what to use.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I love that ABBA song!

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Avec la pomme de terre on fait les frites 🍟

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is why they're called FRENCH fries. Because we're speaking French.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

They're made in Belgium, and half of Belgium speaks French.

[-] Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago
[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

we stole it from the French

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

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Actually the Normans, who were Vikings who rocked up in France and caused such a stink that the crown granted them lands in the north to shut them up. 1066 was basically a succession crisis between three cousins vying for the English crown.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

La Marseillaise intensifies

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