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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.

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.

One time in high school, I dissociated so hard that I temporarily couldn't understand spoken English. Tbf, I did it intentionally just to see if I could (as nerds do when they're bored in gym class.) It was very interesting. English sounded like a softer German with French pronunciations, which tracks. I thought it sounded pleasant. I still want to know what non-Native English speakers think, but it was fun to listen to English "from the outside" for a few minutes.

::: spoiler If you're curious, I was on the loud, busy bleachers with many other people. I decided to concentrate on the sounds I heard, and only on the sounds, without attempting to understand anything that was said. At some point it's like my comprehension disengaged and I was in a sea of meaningless chatter. It should be noted that I am neurodivergent, so perhaps it was easier for me to concentrate on pure sensory information? Who knows. I sure don't. :::

If anybody else has had this experience, I'm curious what it was like for you, too.

Hahaha, that's pretty good!

Rawndayvoo.

Randy foos

I'm panlingual — I lick all the people.

Are you in pain?

It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?

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

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.

Which romance languages, at that! They're all different! Haha

In Portuguese it's spelled coronel and pronounced just like that, with the R in the middle. I can't think of a single word where the L and R interchange. I can't speak for other romance languages though.

Kernuhl

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

look i’m not trying to defend english

french loan words are just worse

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.

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

We should write fully phonologically in IPA. You have an accent? Write it down. I want to imagine the voice of the writer better when reading a paper.

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.

Moi aussi.

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