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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset. (hexbear.net)

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Castling: English word, cool and normal

En Passant: Fr*nch word, silly and weird

simple as

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

More like en pussynt because I got that dawg in me

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Castle comes from French too.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Castles come from the French in general. Stone castles were a post Norman thing. Big wooden halls, Rohan style were the pre-Norman Norm

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they're also prenorman, the roman ones. some of which were still used into the norman era: i.e. the walls of York

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

That's true but they're not quite the same as a full ass Chateau. Tbh, my pre-norman England knowledge is mostly downstream from my Tolkien nerdery it is something I should look more into. German history as well. I'm eventually gonna know all of history really really well one obsession at a time.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It gets a pass, cuz we anglicized it well enough

Here are some other French words that are anglicized well enough to be an English word of its own

Eg. war, guard, sturdy

If it was a cringe word like "rendez-vous" (showing all yourselves), castling would be ewww

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Most war terms in English came from French on account of being conquered by the French via war