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And when the letters are removed, French still lets you know there was a letter at some point by putting a little hat on top of the preceding letter. It makes learning it even funnier.
Forêt and forest. Arrêt and arrest. Hôpital and hospital.
As a native French speaker this may be the laziest part to me. We still say someone was hoSpitalisé, in a hôpital. People can be défeneStrés through fenêtres. Someone can be arrêté through arreStation.
Lots of hidden pains and treasures. When I was a kid I thought learning all this shit was pointless. We should just reform everything and spell like we speak. But then I also learned to appreciate the evolution of the language, and why it’s aisle and isle in English.
In English, every letter is silent. Sometimes.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/mums-the-letter-when-letters-dont-say-a-thing
Letters still have lots of meaning in French. I love French spelling and pronunciation. Not understanding something doesn’t make it meaningless.
Tibetan: abject chaos
Without reason, sure, but with a gender
Assigned with malice
Bordeaux = bordo
French pronunciation works by geological principles: over the years, what looks like an intricate arrangement of vowels and consonants gets eroded and folded down to what’s essentially a nuanced grunt.
That’s just called language
I think you actually just described Danish.
Why pronounce a consonant when you just can swallow it and use a glottal stop instead?
French: oui paid for the whole alphabet and by God oui’re using the whole alphabet
And we are going to use the almost all the alphabet to make exactly one sound.
For instance eaux is pronounced o.
> Heard my friend is going to ‘Bordo’
> Look up Bordo
> Mfw it’s spelled Bordeaux
I’ve always thought it was funny there is no “o” in “eaux”.
Is that seaux?
Yes it is sceau
Oué
œufs.
Accurate.
English: ghoti
Do you like ghoti sticks? Then you’re a gay ghoti.
