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french politics
have you seen french politics? like actually?
i know that when compared to the US it may as well be a socialist utopia but french politics are awful. france is one of the countries most responsible for imperialism and colonialism. france is one of the most systematically racist countries in europe, and that’s saying something!
Really it’s more that French politicians are properly accountable to the people, who will protest and strike frequently. That’s what makes French politics great, not the leaders but the citizens.
I don't know how much you know about France, and french politics specifically, but as a person born in France I want to tell you that you might have been mislead... From my point of view and with my knowledge, politics here is a shit show, basically the elite mock everyone, France is run by billionaires, happily oppressing the poor.
Ain't we all? But honestly I get so frustrated with seeing what they debate over and how everything is just done for profit and from what the politians can hoard most money from. I know it's joked about a lot but it just seems insane that Babiš can just use all these things for his own companies and profit. I rather not watch politics at all just from memes and what I hear from others so I might not know everything but still just seems insane they can do these things.
So what I'm hearing is that people know how to protest over there because yall have a lot to protest against
Yeah, that's closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul's staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.
So it's very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it's a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.
More to your point, I don't know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.
No, politicians don't give a shit about people striking. And the biggest haters of strikes are the citizens who don't like their life and privileges to be disturbed by people striking for their rights.
Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like "lead" and you don't even know how to pronounce it!
"I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday"
Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭
Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can't know how to pronounce the second "read" until you get to "yesterday". Schrödingers pronunciation.
As a Spanish speaker, I find it so ironic to see this meme in English...
English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them
But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.
French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.
most of the letters
Queue
(and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)
Well "Mike" is a typical appreciation of the name Micheal of Hebrew origin that long predates the English language. "Nike" is Ancient Greek, which also predates the English Language. Nike is the name of the Greek god of victory. So neither one of those is English.
literally a french word
Not pictured: French aircraft design
Like the Concorde?
The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.
If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.
French culture my ass.
Paris is an overpriced amusement park where all the employee hate you.
Give me Italy any day.
Fun fact: countries consist of more than one city.
Additional information: there are cultural differences between different regions in the same country, even between different cities and towns in the same region! Imagine that!
Well alright, but have you considered that Voltaire is really good?
That guy who made fun of French institutions?
Yeah!
Reparle de paris encore une seule fois batard et j'enverrai ta tête tellement loin qu'elle aura le temps de faire tout le tour de la dinguerie géologique et culturelle qu'est la France avant de retomber dans le Limousin où ta tête finira ses jours paisiblement entourée de jolies vaches.
Nope, pretty sure French politics should get a crying face (saying this as a French citizen)
At least the Belgian and Swiss Frenches have slightly less weird numbering. Though in France, you get to say "80." "Leul, blaze it"
We keep the memory alive of a 3000 year old numbering system (apparently some tribes counted in twenties, and that's the only trace left of it).
Pssshh whatever, can't be mad at a language that contains pamplemousse
American culture is practically a turd in a box with a $99 price tag on it.
I once heard from a friend learning French that the way to say that you are in the process of doing something literally translated to 'I am on the train to [doing the thing]'. Is that correct?
it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution "en train de [verbe]", en train has the 15th century meaning of "in action", "in movement", this predates the invention of the railroad :)
Wait, woah, so the term 'train' is from the French word for 'action' or 'motion', essentially? That's kind of a dub.
originally, as a noun, "le train" comes from the latin word trahere "to pull". It's then use to describe a convoy of animals. Later its meaning evolved into the "the going motion" (of a horse, a human).
It's currently in that sense in "arrière-train" to designate the back legs of a quadruped. "Aller de bon train" = to walk briskly, or in automotive, the "train avant" and "train arrière" are the front and rear axles.
There are other expressions like "le train-train quotidien", meaning the daily grind.
edit: additional information to the etymology
I'm well on the way to writing that report, boss
Our company is on the road to developing those features
I'm on the path to forgiving you
Native here, yep it is correct and idiomatic. "Je suis en train de [faire la chose]"
We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn't get the joke, and here we are.
