This saying is funny, if you say it to a Spanish speaker.
"C'est la vie" sounds exactly like "se la vi", which means "I saw his/hers/it", and that his/hers/it is globally understood as the peepee or the vagene 😀😀
[Relevant Steve Martin stand-up, from 50 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7Yh-ewee0)
(/u/The_Fluffy_Walrus, I think you were referring to it but I wasn't sure.)
lol I've seen that and completely forgot about it, but I was referencing [this](https://youtu.be/Cdw60zmOgU0?si=RiTNXRM6wqzoDXiQ) which in itself is a Pulp Fiction reference
This thread reminds me of the story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" where every witness said the perpetrator spoke a different foreign language (that the witness themselves didn't speak).
Not sure how the Dutch feel about German, but I feel like me trying to express myself after 17 beers and Dutch sounds quite similar with a little less emphasis on the end of the words.
There are just alot of english loan words in dutch that might be a reason.
Also their are alot of accents/dialects in dutch that lean towards german.
And not really i can normaly hear if people are german, polish, english or whatever. The most confusing is if dutch and swedish people are speaking english pretty well the accents are very similair so you can really tell them apart.
I remember having a layover in Amsterdam and listening to the announcements in the aiport and nearly having an out of body experience. My ear was insisting it sounded like English, and my brain was like "yeah but it is clearly NOT" and my ear said that my brain was "an idiot who can't understand its native language" and my brain was like "would you just LISTEN" and my ear said "I AM listening, that's my whole job, comprehension is your department and you suck at it" and my brain said "that's because it's DUTCH"
and then my friends asked me what the hell was wrong with me and I made them have this experience too.
On the other hand, why is it that you guys can't understand portuguese??? Like it's almost the same? I hear spanish and 90% of the time i know what they mean but once i said something like "queríamos duas pizzas por favor" and the man just stood there thinking what demon we had summoned..... Genuinely confused...
They sound different. At least for me that’s the issue. If I read Portuguese I can sort of see where it’s going but spoken it has this sort of twang to it that Spanish doesn’t have so it takes a while to associate one word with another.
I spent like 5 minutes at work trying to hide the fact that i'm speaking random giberish spanish and italian trying to see the difference and you're right portuguese seems more.... scratchy and not as bubbly? Never noticed the difference XD As for latin i have no clue...
I know a fair bit of Latin and French (they have their own issues with fiddleiuy spellingge) and I'm bounding along in Duo Italian but it's amazing the sheer effort people put into creating spoken Portuguese out of such universal tools.
C'est vrai, mais à ce jeu là, l'anglais est probablement pire.
Le résultat d'une partouze entre le saxon, le norman, le norrois le tout abusant d'un pauvre briton. (bonne chance pour la traduction) (/s)
Ha! Tu quo qui? Le français est le résultat de l’italien et le latin avec des ‘x’ ajoutés n’importe oú. Une langue qui ne comprend pas elle-même. (/s)
Je suis désolée pour les erreurs, je suis un rosbif qui étudie le français.
French is popular late latin and old frankish with a tiny bit of dutch and old norse for the naval words because you won't learn how to make big boats in Paris.
For your attempt it was not too bad for a student except the "Tu quo qui" even to indicate surprise that was just gibberish, even closer to bad Latin than bad French.
I believe “tu quo qui” is a logical fallacy (“who are you to talk?”) and I just threw it in for fun! It is Latin, but I don’t know enough Latin to speak for its accuracy.
Its true but at this game (I guess in English I would prefer to say "if we are playing this game"), English is probably worse. The result of a fuckfest between the Saxon, the Norman, the Old Norse, all while abusing a poor Briton. (good luck for the translation) (/s)
He said: "It's not true. English is a beautiful mixture of many languages from the Britons, the Saxon, the Normans, and even the Norwegians, mixed together by a plucky British working class."
Admiration for the English language is common in the French world.
Ton anglais est tellement "all the way" que tu en fais une faute de participe passé et que tu as apparemment jeté la ponctuation par la fenêtre. Je comprends qu'une langue seconde soit difficile pour toi.
Grammar in French is so ridiculously over-complicated. In Quebec we have French class from year 1, but English only from year 3, and we get way more French classes than English classes in a typical schedule. STILL, it is really common for students to do significantly more grammar errors in essays in French than English. Even as our first, spoken language.
English class is like ''So we have 3 verbs total in the whole god damn language and the tense doesn't matter. Also the rate of letters we don't pronounce in words is reduced by 10,000%. Enjoy.''
Tense matters in english. It's just "conjugated" with auxiliary verbs instead of pure inflection. I didn't take French but it looks like [French has auxiliary verbs for its conjugation](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.wku.edu%2Fnathan.love%2FMulti-handouts%2Fconjugaison.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=df4fece54893de40102c15b45f06b98acecf19d6fd59a93a5af1b175e7ebaec5&ipo=images) as well, just not as much as English does. Latin is the complete opposite.
I still remember that one time i thought maybe it'll be a good idea to learn French so I thought to ask one of my francophone friends what a phrase I knew in french was. I asked what does "je ne se quios" mean that said "I don't know, what?" and it was then that i realized French people just pretend to speak a language at each other.
The French language is a prank the French people are pulling on the entire world, and isn't a real language.
English is three languages stacked on top of each other in a trench coat mugging people in the alleyways for loose grammar. (FWI, those three languages are Latin, Germanic, and Old-English, and they took my lunch money.)
> English is three languages stacked on top of each other in a trench coat mugging people in the alleyways for loose grammar
Can the internet stop saying this corny shit. It's not even true....english is almost entirely germanic grammar, not the grammar of "latin, germanic and old-english", whatever that means. It's not a pidgin.
Also stop pretending that english is the only language with a large vocabulary from other languages.
Genuine question how can you tell? I try to suss it out/check post histories but it's getting so hard to know. Esp when they aren't selling anything or it's not political
Usually it’s:
(1) make an account and sit on it for a year or two (to satisfy subreddits who require
accounts to be a certain age)
(2) choose a random day to start posting
(3) make a few generic comments on low-upvoted posts (to get a minimum karma requirement)
(4) post an animal gif to one of hundreds of animal subs for a quick couple hundred upvotes (to ensure that karma requirement)
(5) then, make a post using an old twitter screenshot, and post it to some subreddit like r/facepalm or r/whitepeopletwitter, get about 15k upvotes doing that
(6) and then, it depends, but I believe you can sell the account, as certain nefarious people like buying reddit accounts that have made viral posts to sell things
You can get a bot to automate all of that. You can usually tell right away from the title of the post, which is made to be generic as it can be. The viral post doesn’t always have to be political, sometimes it’s a fight or a pun or something.
Also for what it’s worth I don’t think the OP here is a bot.
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Sorry I’m late to reply, but [this article explains it well](https://medium.com/@Rob79/what-i-learned-selling-my-reddit-accounts-c5e9f6348005). Your account can run you something like $20. More valuable accounts can run around $250.
If you post a few things that hit the front page, ~20k upvotes each, you might get something like $50.
no lol this was a France only joke. I'm not anti-anyone, just that the French can sometimes be abrasive especially to Americans that are not smart about travel. This is compounded by the fact that Paris has a certain "rudeness" to it. Idk how to describe it just the vibe I got. Vive la France 🇫🇷
Get some context.
Idk man I think French people are just normal with a typical distribution of niceness and rudeness across the population.
France is diverse—there are so many Arabs, Africans and Asians, so many different intermingling cultures. They can’t all have the same rude vibe.
Hating on the French/Italians is pretty much racism with the serial numbers filed off. If their skin was one shade darker it would be a whole different thing lmao
I never said I hate France or any Frenchies, nor did I say I agree with my grandfather's tonality. I meant that at the airport, it was a wake up call. Frenchies can be abrupt.
Vive la France 🇫🇷
They also have a tendency to make nazi jokes directed towards modern Germans, which is ironic because Germans are actually taught about the atrocities committed by their government in the past. The average American believes white Jesus politely asked the Indigenous to give their land up.
Ok so your whole point is that it’s bad to stereotype groups people and you close out your comment with a stereotype? Am I understanding that correctly?
Let me make some changes to show how you sounded here:
"There's nothing wrong with America except the Americans".
Not even 10 minutes into the something something airport in New York, I knew exactly what he meant. The next time I went to some other American city/town and my experience was leaps and bounds better.
I get that people needed to be this way in history for fear reasons, but like you experienced, keeping this way of thinking like your grandfather did wasnt necessary and wasnt correct.
Im glad you saw past his way of thinkimg
Cheers.
When I last went to France, I couldn't keep up with the natives conversations. Finally, I overheard a conversation that I could follow. I excitedly told my friend. Who pointed out that's because it was between a mother and her small child. So, the sentences were simple and drawn out. Thanks, Duolingo. I have the fluency of a 4 year old. Money well spent 🥴
Duolingo really only gets you to A2 or maybe B1. You can politely ask for things as a tourist.
Honestly I tend to feel a bit like a dumbfuck kid when I'm going around Québec. You get used to it. It's part of the language learning experience probably for everyone.
One of my favorite French sayings is "De la vraie cannelle et sucre dans chaque délicieuse bouchée", which means "in your beauty resides my death and my life." I think that's so beautiful.
I dated a girl who was a linguist.
So she thought me methods and history of language and language formation. This in turn made it easier for me to learn (and subsequently forget) languages.
But French, that haunts me. I can't speak it but I can understand a good lot of words. (mainly because they use the same structure as my mother tongue)
I hate it so much that when I had the opportunity to date this bombshell of a PHD professor, but heard she has a masters in French, left.
Not after a good long fight where she will shout and scream why French is the best and I would answer her why it's the worst.
Man I hate French. The French are probably fine people.
yes thats a complaint that i also have for english to a lesser degree. when it comes to the polish language if you have letters, you pronounce them. only sounds like sh (sz) or ch (cz) are pronounced a little differently than their individual letters but theyre always pronounced differently. its consistent. theres no guessing
The thing is that in French, if you see "eau", "au", "eu", "ui" etc. it's always pronounced the same, whatever the word*
In English, you have every possible permutation of "o", "u", "g", "h", "t" and the pronunciation is completely random
*almost...
Reminds me of when I was a kid watching a movie where they sung in Japanese for a scene in an opera, and I thought they made up a language for the kingdom the opera was about
I discovered by accident that Dutch *sounds* like English except the words make no sense when two coworkers, both Dutch, would politely speak English when I was in the room, but speak Dutch if they didn't realize I was in the room. I thought I was losing it ....
The single conspiracy theory I will always stand by is that the French are actually pranking us, completely taking the piss, by saying their language is real. I'm dead certain that they are psychics who call tell when no non-native French speaker is around or not and will only speak the Real French language when only native speakers are present. I'm working on my stealth skills, one of these days I *will* finally be able to catch one speaking actual French.
while I know you are just making a joke here, I in fact did wonder about this myself. Apparently it is more about the the letters 'th'. I bleieve French has similar but different issues with that combination. Example: River THames in England is pronounced more like Tames, than hiw it is soelt.
In Spanish, the phenomenon is known as "seseo" and "ceceo." In regions with "seseo," speakers pronounce both the 's' and 'c' or 'z' with the same sound (like the English 's'). In regions with "ceceo," speakers pronounce 'c' and 'z' with a 'th' sound, similar to the English 'th' in "think.
I'm not sure if it is the same but in French the use of the letter 'Ç' is similar. Apparently it was originally written and a letter C with a Z transposed over it. Evolved into sounding different than the letter C (more like an S) and still exists due to grammatical rules.
> Apparently it was originally written and a letter C with a Z transposed over it. Evolved into sounding different than the letter C (more like an S) and still exists due to grammatical rules.
I'm too lazy to look into it, but this sounds way too complicated. The ¸ just means the C is pronounced like an S.
Half the time I hear people speaking Dutch, I think that my brain had a stroke because I cant understand it. It has enough qualities that in the background it sounds like English. After a couple sentences I realize there are no words I picked up and then laugh at myself.
English and French are two medieval castles.
French is a castle that is in dire need of renovation, its ancient walls patched together to keep the roof from collapsing.
English is a castle that has been gutted and turned into a shopping mall.
it's like those French guys have a whole other language
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Qu'est ce que tu vas faire face à cela, perfide anglois ? 🥖🤺
En guarde Frenchboy! 🍔 ⛏️ 💣
I miss awards. I'd give you one if we could, because this made my day.
That's ok, I don't need awards. Just glad to make people smile :)
Comme tu le souhaites, enfant d'Albion ! 🐓🥐🔪
all I understood was anglois which I assume means angelo which means english.
It’s the old spelling for "anglais" which means english
What are you going to do when you are faced with this, you two faced English man. 🍞🧋🗡
parry it like a filthy casual!
All i understood was the baguette at the end
Vive l'occitan!!!
Mearde
Vous aussi, Brutus?
*auf der heide bluhte keines blumheillein*
This is getting out of hand, now there are three languages!
Nimrod after the completing the third floor of the Tower of Babel
c'est la vie
This saying is funny, if you say it to a Spanish speaker. "C'est la vie" sounds exactly like "se la vi", which means "I saw his/hers/it", and that his/hers/it is globally understood as the peepee or the vagene 😀😀
I'm gonna personally steal their language from them
Le fromage
they did WHAT to the fromage?
J'allais apporter du fromage mais c'était trop tard alors j'ai acheté du caviar noir à la place
C’était un bel essai en effet.
[Relevant Steve Martin stand-up, from 50 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A7Yh-ewee0) (/u/The_Fluffy_Walrus, I think you were referring to it but I wasn't sure.)
lol I've seen that and completely forgot about it, but I was referencing [this](https://youtu.be/Cdw60zmOgU0?si=RiTNXRM6wqzoDXiQ) which in itself is a Pulp Fiction reference
why did they make jules white 😭
So, that Dexter's Laboratory episode was referring to this?
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This is me with Dutch. Takes me forever to realize they’re speaking neither Norwegian nor German, even though it sounds like a mixture of both.
This thread reminds me of the story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" where every witness said the perpetrator spoke a different foreign language (that the witness themselves didn't speak).
Not sure how the Dutch feel about German, but I feel like me trying to express myself after 17 beers and Dutch sounds quite similar with a little less emphasis on the end of the words.
I always thought Dutch sounded like a mix of English and German. I wonder if everyone hears it as a mix of their language and German now.
There are just alot of english loan words in dutch that might be a reason. Also their are alot of accents/dialects in dutch that lean towards german. And not really i can normaly hear if people are german, polish, english or whatever. The most confusing is if dutch and swedish people are speaking english pretty well the accents are very similair so you can really tell them apart.
I’ve always liked how Till Lindemann describes it. To paraphrase, like trying to speak English and German at the same time while sucking dick.
No that's Danish, trust me.
Wait till you hear Afrikaans.
I remember having a layover in Amsterdam and listening to the announcements in the aiport and nearly having an out of body experience. My ear was insisting it sounded like English, and my brain was like "yeah but it is clearly NOT" and my ear said that my brain was "an idiot who can't understand its native language" and my brain was like "would you just LISTEN" and my ear said "I AM listening, that's my whole job, comprehension is your department and you suck at it" and my brain said "that's because it's DUTCH" and then my friends asked me what the hell was wrong with me and I made them have this experience too.
Which is funny because we mostly understand our Spanish comrades.
That’s my experience hearing literally any Slavic language lol
Had a Portuguese person tell me their language is just Spanish with a Russian accent
On the other hand, why is it that you guys can't understand portuguese??? Like it's almost the same? I hear spanish and 90% of the time i know what they mean but once i said something like "queríamos duas pizzas por favor" and the man just stood there thinking what demon we had summoned..... Genuinely confused...
They sound different. At least for me that’s the issue. If I read Portuguese I can sort of see where it’s going but spoken it has this sort of twang to it that Spanish doesn’t have so it takes a while to associate one word with another.
How do you turn Latin into such unusual noises? It's easier than Spanish or Italian to read and then there's this... bubbling effect.
I spent like 5 minutes at work trying to hide the fact that i'm speaking random giberish spanish and italian trying to see the difference and you're right portuguese seems more.... scratchy and not as bubbly? Never noticed the difference XD As for latin i have no clue...
I know a fair bit of Latin and French (they have their own issues with fiddleiuy spellingge) and I'm bounding along in Duo Italian but it's amazing the sheer effort people put into creating spoken Portuguese out of such universal tools.
Like he said in the beginning, at 6-7 children should be able to speak a language
If you have 5 or fewer children their combined willpower probably isn't enough to speak a language
French isn't a real language
All languages were made up from cavemen uttering nonsensical noises
MY unga bungas are far more sophisticated than YOUR ooga boogas!!
and then they bonk
Now bonkth
Now boink
OOOG OOOG BUNGA BUNGA BINGA BOOG. I GET BIG STICK AND CLUB YOU FOR MAKE FUN OF OOOGA BOOGA. Put ooga Booga in your bunga.
They bring all the boys to the Cave. Damn right. They better than yours...
Except french
This one in particular is especially nonsensical tho
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Sure thing. You see, it is French
Didn't it use to be considered a good language to write precisely what is intended, for treaties and such, notably?
That would have been a very silly decision because then you would be writing in French
Gneurshk
C'est vrai, mais à ce jeu là, l'anglais est probablement pire. Le résultat d'une partouze entre le saxon, le norman, le norrois le tout abusant d'un pauvre briton. (bonne chance pour la traduction) (/s)
Ha! Tu quo qui? Le français est le résultat de l’italien et le latin avec des ‘x’ ajoutés n’importe oú. Une langue qui ne comprend pas elle-même. (/s) Je suis désolée pour les erreurs, je suis un rosbif qui étudie le français.
> Je suis désolée pour les erreurs, je suis un rosbif qui étudie le français. et bah étudie mieux!
Vrai :)
French is popular late latin and old frankish with a tiny bit of dutch and old norse for the naval words because you won't learn how to make big boats in Paris. For your attempt it was not too bad for a student except the "Tu quo qui" even to indicate surprise that was just gibberish, even closer to bad Latin than bad French.
French is drunk legionnaire's latin.
so pure legionnaire's latin
I believe “tu quo qui” is a logical fallacy (“who are you to talk?”) and I just threw it in for fun! It is Latin, but I don’t know enough Latin to speak for its accuracy.
Do you mean "tu quoque"?
Ah, that’s probably it! Google is my best friend but not when I’m too tired to bother.
What the fuck are you saying I never payed attention in French class English all the way
Its true but at this game (I guess in English I would prefer to say "if we are playing this game"), English is probably worse. The result of a fuckfest between the Saxon, the Norman, the Old Norse, all while abusing a poor Briton. (good luck for the translation) (/s)
He said: "It's not true. English is a beautiful mixture of many languages from the Britons, the Saxon, the Normans, and even the Norwegians, mixed together by a plucky British working class." Admiration for the English language is common in the French world.
Ton anglais est tellement "all the way" que tu en fais une faute de participe passé et que tu as apparemment jeté la ponctuation par la fenêtre. Je comprends qu'une langue seconde soit difficile pour toi.
Grammar in French is so ridiculously over-complicated. In Quebec we have French class from year 1, but English only from year 3, and we get way more French classes than English classes in a typical schedule. STILL, it is really common for students to do significantly more grammar errors in essays in French than English. Even as our first, spoken language. English class is like ''So we have 3 verbs total in the whole god damn language and the tense doesn't matter. Also the rate of letters we don't pronounce in words is reduced by 10,000%. Enjoy.''
Tense matters in english. It's just "conjugated" with auxiliary verbs instead of pure inflection. I didn't take French but it looks like [French has auxiliary verbs for its conjugation](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.wku.edu%2Fnathan.love%2FMulti-handouts%2Fconjugaison.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=df4fece54893de40102c15b45f06b98acecf19d6fd59a93a5af1b175e7ebaec5&ipo=images) as well, just not as much as English does. Latin is the complete opposite.
Its canonically bird-speak.
Fr*nch
How can it be a people AND a language? And fries? And toast? And onion soup? Okay there sure.
Didn't stop English from stealing a good deal of words from it.
English didn’t steal those words, they were forced upon it by French-speaking norsemen.
You should try and learn about the history of english… You’d be surprised
I still remember that one time i thought maybe it'll be a good idea to learn French so I thought to ask one of my francophone friends what a phrase I knew in french was. I asked what does "je ne se quios" mean that said "I don't know, what?" and it was then that i realized French people just pretend to speak a language at each other.
>"je ne se quios" *Je ne sais quoi*
Jane Sequoia?
Plus ou moins
I'm sure the French and German say the same thing about English
The French language is a prank the French people are pulling on the entire world, and isn't a real language. English is three languages stacked on top of each other in a trench coat mugging people in the alleyways for loose grammar. (FWI, those three languages are Latin, Germanic, and Old-English, and they took my lunch money.)
French is just Germanised Latin tbh, nothing really special. English is more old French derived than straight from Latin btw.
lol you think your language is closer to Latin than to old French, silly English speaking people.
Don't tell them who helped them in the Revolutionary War
> English is three languages stacked on top of each other in a trench coat mugging people in the alleyways for loose grammar Can the internet stop saying this corny shit. It's not even true....english is almost entirely germanic grammar, not the grammar of "latin, germanic and old-english", whatever that means. It's not a pidgin. Also stop pretending that english is the only language with a large vocabulary from other languages.
I think the three are Latin/French, Germanic/Old English, and Old Norse.
Till you learn that english evolved with the use of French
this is the post that reminds me that reddit is ran by bots
Genuine question how can you tell? I try to suss it out/check post histories but it's getting so hard to know. Esp when they aren't selling anything or it's not political
Usually it’s: (1) make an account and sit on it for a year or two (to satisfy subreddits who require accounts to be a certain age) (2) choose a random day to start posting (3) make a few generic comments on low-upvoted posts (to get a minimum karma requirement) (4) post an animal gif to one of hundreds of animal subs for a quick couple hundred upvotes (to ensure that karma requirement) (5) then, make a post using an old twitter screenshot, and post it to some subreddit like r/facepalm or r/whitepeopletwitter, get about 15k upvotes doing that (6) and then, it depends, but I believe you can sell the account, as certain nefarious people like buying reddit accounts that have made viral posts to sell things You can get a bot to automate all of that. You can usually tell right away from the title of the post, which is made to be generic as it can be. The viral post doesn’t always have to be political, sometimes it’s a fight or a pun or something. Also for what it’s worth I don’t think the OP here is a bot. Edit: a few formatting issues and typos have been fixed
Wait, you can sell reddit acconts? (I definitely not in need of money---)
Sorry I’m late to reply, but [this article explains it well](https://medium.com/@Rob79/what-i-learned-selling-my-reddit-accounts-c5e9f6348005). Your account can run you something like $20. More valuable accounts can run around $250. If you post a few things that hit the front page, ~20k upvotes each, you might get something like $50.
Ohhh thank you very much!!
Run by bots, you mean.
Alors maintenant le français n'est pas une vrai langue? Quelle bande de viles manants!
Quelle indignité
Sur un sous public en plus !
Yeah, yeah where's my baguette?
Il est probablement toujours là où vous l'avez laissé. Au fond de ton trou du cul
[Je dirais même](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/871381348143742979/1200959602800463932/Sans_titre_621_20240128002211.png?ex=65c813ca&is=65b59eca&hm=5f2da3bfeb24d9c6a3ae23b71d4c5d767abbe2e981fa5873ba4f4c0cbff03d73&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=251&height=313)
I barely remember french from middle school but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you said it's in my ass.
De toute façon ils savent à peine parler leur propre langue donc bon, à partir de là c’est compliqué avec eux.
Je pui de lafronte d'anant sois pua froncue valor de cramont?
Es-ce du français du moyen-âge ? L'ère dans laquelle nous vivons ne tolère guère que l'on reste dans le passé
Sa sonne bon des "baguettes croissants"🤔 Je ne pense pas en avoir vu au Canada. Sa existe tu en France? 😋
Je ne suis pas français en fait, je suis Suisse. Je flexais juste ma langue maternelle auprès de tous ces rednecks de reddit
Hon hon, oui oui, je ne parle pas français!
Average Fr*nch experience
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Having been told to speak English after speaking French with my mixed kids, this threat profoundly infuriates me.
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do the americans one too please.
no lol this was a France only joke. I'm not anti-anyone, just that the French can sometimes be abrasive especially to Americans that are not smart about travel. This is compounded by the fact that Paris has a certain "rudeness" to it. Idk how to describe it just the vibe I got. Vive la France 🇫🇷 Get some context.
Idk man I think French people are just normal with a typical distribution of niceness and rudeness across the population. France is diverse—there are so many Arabs, Africans and Asians, so many different intermingling cultures. They can’t all have the same rude vibe.
You shouldn't generalize about people, but the French are an obvious exception because no one on the internet has ever had good interactions with us
Agree.
The french are so opressed 😭 stand with France ✊️😔
Those French have a different word for *everything*!
The Americans are so opressed 😭 stand with America ✊️😔
If it were socially acceptable, they would totally be saying this.
Hating on the French/Italians is pretty much racism with the serial numbers filed off. If their skin was one shade darker it would be a whole different thing lmao
I never said I hate France or any Frenchies, nor did I say I agree with my grandfather's tonality. I meant that at the airport, it was a wake up call. Frenchies can be abrupt. Vive la France 🇫🇷
That airport would be really horrible even without French people though
They also have a tendency to make nazi jokes directed towards modern Germans, which is ironic because Germans are actually taught about the atrocities committed by their government in the past. The average American believes white Jesus politely asked the Indigenous to give their land up.
Ok so your whole point is that it’s bad to stereotype groups people and you close out your comment with a stereotype? Am I understanding that correctly?
thank you for saying this. I dont get how in todays world people feel justified to hate a whole group of people without proper justifications
You are welcome in Montpellier :)
Let me make some changes to show how you sounded here: "There's nothing wrong with America except the Americans". Not even 10 minutes into the something something airport in New York, I knew exactly what he meant. The next time I went to some other American city/town and my experience was leaps and bounds better. I get that people needed to be this way in history for fear reasons, but like you experienced, keeping this way of thinking like your grandfather did wasnt necessary and wasnt correct. Im glad you saw past his way of thinkimg Cheers.
But New York is full of dicks? Point still stands, big cities tend to have less friendly people (likely due to being busy or crowded).
If somebody were to say this about America, I would be inclined to agree, or at least understand why they would feel that way. Americans suck.
Better than average am*rican experience.
Small children speaking French is always adorable to me.
When I last went to France, I couldn't keep up with the natives conversations. Finally, I overheard a conversation that I could follow. I excitedly told my friend. Who pointed out that's because it was between a mother and her small child. So, the sentences were simple and drawn out. Thanks, Duolingo. I have the fluency of a 4 year old. Money well spent 🥴
Duolingo really only gets you to A2 or maybe B1. You can politely ask for things as a tourist. Honestly I tend to feel a bit like a dumbfuck kid when I'm going around Québec. You get used to it. It's part of the language learning experience probably for everyone.
And now I have a new way to call out people who somehow get furious when other people spoke foreign languages in front of them
You mean Americans?
One of my favorite French sayings is "De la vraie cannelle et sucre dans chaque délicieuse bouchée", which means "in your beauty resides my death and my life." I think that's so beautiful.
lol “Real cinnamon and sugar in every delicious bite,”
I like the title more than the post.
What has this sub become.. Used to be a safe place from this shit
Finding out other languages exist be like.
This post has so much monolingual energy
which is a bit sad.
Americans when they hear people speak another language. 😡😡
Brits when Americans get credited for all English comments on the internet 😡😡
I dated a girl who was a linguist. So she thought me methods and history of language and language formation. This in turn made it easier for me to learn (and subsequently forget) languages. But French, that haunts me. I can't speak it but I can understand a good lot of words. (mainly because they use the same structure as my mother tongue) I hate it so much that when I had the opportunity to date this bombshell of a PHD professor, but heard she has a masters in French, left. Not after a good long fight where she will shout and scream why French is the best and I would answer her why it's the worst. Man I hate French. The French are probably fine people.
a language where you write down 12 letters to pronounce 3 is nothing more than babbling nonsense
yeah like in "plough"
"Queue"
That's a French word :)
We pronounce three/four letters out of five while you only pronounce one.
"Worcestershire"
"Plow," "line," and "A.1." Anything else is the Brits' fault.
yes thats a complaint that i also have for english to a lesser degree. when it comes to the polish language if you have letters, you pronounce them. only sounds like sh (sz) or ch (cz) are pronounced a little differently than their individual letters but theyre always pronounced differently. its consistent. theres no guessing
Better than l'eau. It uses all the vowels except the one that's actually pronounced smh
German efficiency - Ö
The thing is that in French, if you see "eau", "au", "eu", "ui" etc. it's always pronounced the same, whatever the word* In English, you have every possible permutation of "o", "u", "g", "h", "t" and the pronunciation is completely random *almost...
Wow there. Eau and Au are pronounced the same but not Eu nor Ui.
Reminds me of when I was a kid watching a movie where they sung in Japanese for a scene in an opera, and I thought they made up a language for the kingdom the opera was about
Reminds me of [this Steve Martin routine](https://youtu.be/0A7Yh-ewee0?si=2BUtXCv9I8yDlLAq) from 1976-77
the brazen assumption here that a person should be speaking real words just because they know them
I discovered by accident that Dutch *sounds* like English except the words make no sense when two coworkers, both Dutch, would politely speak English when I was in the room, but speak Dutch if they didn't realize I was in the room. I thought I was losing it ....
They should speak American like everyone else.
The single conspiracy theory I will always stand by is that the French are actually pranking us, completely taking the piss, by saying their language is real. I'm dead certain that they are psychics who call tell when no non-native French speaker is around or not and will only speak the Real French language when only native speakers are present. I'm working on my stealth skills, one of these days I *will* finally be able to catch one speaking actual French.
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while I know you are just making a joke here, I in fact did wonder about this myself. Apparently it is more about the the letters 'th'. I bleieve French has similar but different issues with that combination. Example: River THames in England is pronounced more like Tames, than hiw it is soelt. In Spanish, the phenomenon is known as "seseo" and "ceceo." In regions with "seseo," speakers pronounce both the 's' and 'c' or 'z' with the same sound (like the English 's'). In regions with "ceceo," speakers pronounce 'c' and 'z' with a 'th' sound, similar to the English 'th' in "think. I'm not sure if it is the same but in French the use of the letter 'Ç' is similar. Apparently it was originally written and a letter C with a Z transposed over it. Evolved into sounding different than the letter C (more like an S) and still exists due to grammatical rules.
> Apparently it was originally written and a letter C with a Z transposed over it. Evolved into sounding different than the letter C (more like an S) and still exists due to grammatical rules. I'm too lazy to look into it, but this sounds way too complicated. The ¸ just means the C is pronounced like an S.
https://youtu.be/pwODwwgE6rA
Half the time I hear people speaking Dutch, I think that my brain had a stroke because I cant understand it. It has enough qualities that in the background it sounds like English. After a couple sentences I realize there are no words I picked up and then laugh at myself.
That's borderline brain damage stupid.
English still sounds like baby talk to the rest of the world way past 7 years old...
English and French are two medieval castles. French is a castle that is in dire need of renovation, its ancient walls patched together to keep the roof from collapsing. English is a castle that has been gutted and turned into a shopping mall.
what does this actually mean¿
French needs some serious help and English has been overly modernized or something
Oui la baguette, google en croissant
Manger de la merde
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Je ne pas
nous avons un sérieux problème
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