I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.
Wait until they find out what “RSVP” stands for.
Absolutely hate when someone asks me to “rsvp please”.
Redundant acronym syndrome bothers me too. It irks me that the wikipedia page for it is “RAS Syndrome” which in itself is echoing the issue it’s describing. That shit has to be intentional.
It’s like how hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. That’s some fucked up shit. Even it’s more official word “sesquipedalophobia” is still a bit long for anyone who experiences that fear.
Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?
Ew :(
Poor monolinguals
I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
linguistics, but yes ;)
It’s not our fault French was made wrong.
it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling
rendez-vous’s pronounciation is perfectly regular in french
Rawndayvoo.
Careful, Col. Hans Landa might notice the accent.
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.
I would love to see how this shook out when the British start getting possessive about their language in petty retribution. US adopts “hick hoodrat” as its first language?
Randy foos
One of my multilingual friends called English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
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.
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
It’s spelt colonised
I would pronounce that “colon-iced”
Frozen butt plug
Nice business model. Silicone ice molds, sanitary and there’s no risk of tearing during extraction.
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?
I’ll cry really hard and make you feel bad because your european empathy makes you supspecktable to emotional damage.
TIL empathy is a European thing. All the more reason to move to Europe. Unfortunately, I’m american, so by your logic I’ll just water my lawn with your tears…
Nice try, but if you were really american, you’d spell it conzequences.
Nice try Mr. Italiano.
Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto
Don’t forget the ancient Latin that a bunch of scholars pulled in during the 1600s because the French descendants weren’t fancy enough.
Hahaha, that’s pretty good!
It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.
[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!
It’d be spelled 𐑮𐑪𐑯𐑛𐑱𐑝𐑵 in Shavian script English, is that better?
It’s easier to read at least, but we loose the etymology.
I also liked the idea of shavian, but I eventually drowsed myself into anglish or what you might call frenchless english or plain english.
That is not to say shavian is not worth your time, it certainly is markworthy.
I have no idea how practical it is, but I’ve definitely been all-in ever since !shavian@lemmy.world popped up a week ago or so lol. It’s just really pretty looking and fun
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
I am polylingual 💖
I’m panlingual — I lick all the people.
French is an abomination of a language.
“Borrows words from other languages”
“Other languages are abominations”
- Brits
I actually love the few little French loanwords. We have the exact same ones in German. Also I will put my French allies above American heathens always.
Moi j’aime bien.
Moi aussi.
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.
look i’m not trying to defend english
french loan words are just worse
It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion
Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” -James Nicoll
I love the quote, but I think it’s important to credit its creator - James Nicoll
Don’t even get me started on Colonel.
Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.
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.
Which romance languages, at that! They’re all different! Haha
you mean “kornul”?
Kernuhl
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Mongoloid would have been funnier.
