• Kennystillalive@feddit.org
    16·
    28 days ago

    I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French’s inbread son.

      • Uruanna@lemmy.world
        2·
        28 days ago

        The Normans just spoke French, it’s everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!

      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        24 days ago

        That’s a gross simplification.

        First, much of said “fucking it up” was done by Norse influence due to all the Danes. Started a bit earlier than 1066, something-something Canute, something-something Danelaw, something-something great pagan army.

        Second, Norman French was one of two clearly separable waves of “French” influence, and the commoners’ Germanic language after it was still very different from what happened after the other wave.

        Third, that other wave was Angevin French, which, yeah, made a big influence, in huge part because it happened in the time when English kings were trying to conquer much of France for themselves, and didn’t see themselves as English kings really.

  • baines@piefed.socialEnglish
    177·
    29 days ago

    fuck all french origin words in english

    they all behave counter to the rest of english logic

        • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
          141·
          28 days ago

          “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

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          5·
          29 days ago

          Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.

      • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
        1·
        16 days ago

        The joke being the word used to describe people who only speak one language is an abomination composed of both greek and latin. Definitely used as an insult, but it’s a clever one.

        Although I seriously doubt OOP made that choice on purpose, so the secondary joke here is how they included a massive language blunder in the same comment as they were being a snob about languages.

    • Vegafjord eo@lemmy.ml
      2·
      28 days ago

      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.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
    51·
    28 days ago

    I know all about etymology and language evolution.

    I still think it’s stupid to write “EAU” to say “O”.

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
        3·
        28 days ago

        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.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.org
          2·
          28 days ago

          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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      8·
      29 days ago

      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.

      • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        21·
        28 days ago

        I love how french has somehow become plural, plus if I remember history correctly, french was raped into English.