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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?
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…
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.
Nice try Mr. Italiano.
Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto
Hahaha, that’s pretty good!
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®
Randy foos
[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!
Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
I am polylingual 💖
Don’t even get me started on Colonel.
I always thought colonel would be pronounced colonel, but it’s colonel instead!
I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French’s inbread son.
Your typo has me crumbling. 🥖
Are you in pain?
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
What logic?
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.
look i’m not trying to defend english
french loan words are just worse
Poor monolinguals
I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
linguistics, but yes ;)
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
French is an abomination of a language.
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.
Mongoloid would have been funnier.
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