The irony of writing the post in English, isn’t lost in you, is it?
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OP found it tough to thoroughly think this one through.
I believe it is a conspiracy by HP to make us use more ink.
English mfs copying those words and once again changing their pronunciation <--
This needs the Mr. Bean meme of the English cheating off the French.
EEE aaaaa uuuuuu.
Qwa?
EEEEE AAAAA UUUUU!
QWAAAA?
GIVE ME THE DAMN WATER
At least you can learn which letters to ignore when pronouncing a word. But English pronunciation is completely f-ed up. How do you pronounce "read" or "lead"?
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don't agree.
- Lord Cromer, 1902
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Let's not forget they were some of baddest mfers during the second world war
Edit: some French hating mfers in here‽ The French are some bad ass mfers! Don't care what the doots say, I respect the French!
This is a weird comment but also confusing about why it’s being downvoted.
Is it cuz it’s so random or because people are idiots and think you’re wrong?
The French may have gotten collapsed but they fought tooth and nail the entire war.
The story is that Paris was taken in 6 hours, and that's often used to mock the French for not resisting much. The truth is that Paris wasn't damaged in the way London or Berlin were in WW2. Seems like a decent tradeoff in the end.
I know what “the joke” is, and it’s always been dumb.
English is no much better... In contrast, Korean and Spanish are quite "what you write is what it sounds"
Also in Hawaiian. I was first told “just pronounce all the letters.” This is why you can have words that are all vowels like “Aiea” (basically “a-ee-ay-ya” but kinda fast).
that’s because fucking missionaries came in, created the written language and standardized the spoken language then beat all the children into compliance
then their children overthrew the island and beat them for speaking at all so it almost died and the revival was focused on survival of the language over nuance
it used to have much more spoken variation
the same with polish
Tell that to Mr Wajszczak. Try and get any non polish person to spell it after only hearing it. Then show the name to them, give them a minute to commit it to memory then get them to spell it again. Tried it on 5 different people so far, it's hilarious every time.
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English just saw the French doing this and said: hold my beer
you can say French on the internet, no need to self censor like your mommy will tell you off
A lot of words are acceptable on the internet but under no circumstances whatsoever should anyone type out a word as bad as the F-word. You do not yet know the extent of what you've done…
Pardon my Fr*nch
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Seriously... I speak English and some Spanish. French pronunciation is confusing as fuck. No wonder the English have always attacked them, lol
A lot of unpronounced letters are actually pronounced conditionally, for example in “Je suis un homme” the last s of suis is pronounced because it is followed by a vowel.
Je suis un omelete du fromaaaaage
It is pronounced z however, and not s
Je sui zun nomme
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Bordeaux
Bor-dewks? NON!
Bor-doh? OUI!
Edinburgh is pronounced how?
Oh, easy. Ed-in-ur-mom
Ed in bruh
I live in a city founded by the French and nothing is pronounced the French way. Can't win.
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Danish: hold my beer
Also Danish: you thought the French say '92' in a convoluted manner? Hold my øl.
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