The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
What? I thought it was the main one.
French bashing is overdone and unfunny
39 people disagree apparently, not counting me. Humour is subjective after all. If anything, forcing your humour to others is even more overdone imo.
i dont rly care, just saying that its rly annoying and fucking dumb
Well I don’t care about your opinion either. We have so much in common 🥴
Why do you keep answering then
I may not care about your opinions, but I do care about getting that message to you. It’s called communication btw
whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense
that just about describes half the English vocabulary
I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven’t recovered.
at least it doesn’t have random h’s like thorough etc.
Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.
I hate English.
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?
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.
Right? If the pronunciation changes, change the spelling too.
Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?
I’ve always heard it pronounced per-ogative, not prr-ogative
Прерогатива. More spelling for you.
C’est la vie
C’est la vie
C’est la guerre
C’est la pomme de terre
I love that ABBA song!
Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you’d use la
ah ok i will go fix it
Don’t tell me what to use.
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
Avec la pomme de terre on fait les frites 🍟
This is why they’re called FRENCH fries. Because we’re speaking French.
They’re made in Belgium, and half of Belgium speaks French.
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.
Déjà vu
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.
La Marseillaise intensifies
we stole it from the French
The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.
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.
Those damn mongorians!
That’s one of my all time favourite South park episodes.
Getting the local Chinese restauranteur to build the city wall… because the Chinese are good at building walls.
Shitty walls
“Goddamn Mongorians! Knock down my shitty wall!”
In Viking’s defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.
Being racist to the Gauls I see
Actually, I blame the Franks.
I recently saw a tiktok (therefore I’m an expert) that showed that Old French was pronounced pretty much exactly how it was spelled.
Every language simplifies it’s pronunciation over time, but usually they alter the spelling when they do, but French just said “miss me with that shit, dog” and decided just to change the rules about pronunciation instead
I mean, I Heard that French monks were paid by the letter scribed, rather than the word, so they just put extra letters into everything using made up rules about spelling.
Except all those apostrophes are like whole Latin phrases that the French just ate!
Probably yes, but the rules are simple enough today that you don’t need a PhD to explain though thought, or tie vs tier, or… wait for it… live vs live, or record vs record, read vs read.
Consistent and simple aren’t the same thing.
That being said, English is neither of those things, so it’s a bad comparison to make 🤣
How could you say something so controversial yet so true?
Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.
Kuno:
who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that
You:
Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist
Kuno:
what the fuck did you just call me
Kunoesse:
He called you Mongolian
kunoese nuts
Lmao gottem
We really need to finish this game. So many little gems spread across the way
It sounds like something Encyclopedia could say
Why was “fuck” censored? It doesn’t hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?
How would you like to go to the school councelor?
How would you like to suck my balls?
Really should have censored the M word.
Only a monolingual can call another monolingual “monolingual”.
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja
Was not expecting to see a Tim Minchin reference today.
I know american sign language and english. Am I monolingual?
Wait…how do we count languages? Do programming languages count as a second language?
The FUCK you say to me?
They called you a f*cking bitch
Pretty sure its pronounced mongolian
Mong*lian
They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?
Bilinguals aren’t impressive at all. I think most people are bilinguals. Apparently, according to Journal of Neurolinguistics, we have more bilinguals (43 percent of the world population) rather than monolinguals (40 percent).
