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?
Old English was like a less-complicated German. It was the Norman French who fucked it up. Never forget 1066.
The Normans just spoke French, it’s everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
Who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that?
Ew :(
Kys.
Rather that than be a snail-eating Fr*nchman any day of the week!
Poor monolinguals
I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke
Can you explain the joke? It just comes across as an insult to me.
linguistics, but yes ;)
I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.
fuck all french origin words in english
they all behave counter to the rest of english logic
What logic?
You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.
It had its own logic before the inanity of French came in during the Norman Invasion
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” -James Nicoll
I love the quote, but I think it’s important to credit its creator - James Nicoll
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
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
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.
That shit has to be intentional.
I’m pretty sure it is, but not strictly by Wikipedia. It credits some 2001 column for coming up with it.
Mongoloid would have been funnier.
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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.
“Borrows words from other languages”
“Other languages are abominations”
- Brits
I love how french has somehow become plural, plus if I remember history correctly, french was raped into English.
