It's not our fault French was made wrong.
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One of my multilingual friends call 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
Nice try, but if you were really american, you'd spell it conzequences.
Oh no, an american threatening consequences. What are you going to do, impose tariffs?
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It's spelt colonised
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.
It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.
Hahaha, that's pretty good!
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it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didnโt change the spelling
rendez-vousโs 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 Languageยฎ
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?
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Randy foos
[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception from the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell'em!
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
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. ๐ฅ
Are you in pain?
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
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Don't even get me started on Colonel.
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
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fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
Poor monolinguals
I'm choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
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It'd be spelled ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐๐ฑ๐๐ต in Shavian script English, is that better?
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I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it's stupid to write "EAU" to say "O".
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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.
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