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Ever since I was a kid I always thought the French language sounded so weird and grating, like it just sounds bad to me and I don't know if it's just a thing of mine or if more people agree. Whenever I hear other languages I don't get this feeling (although Chinese sounds undecipherable to me). English is not my first language but it sounds fine to me but maybe I just got used to it.
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Nov 26, 2020 04:20
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I used to think so when I was in high school taking French classes, but now I think it sounds cool.
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Nov 26, 2020 04:39
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All I know is the biggest assholes I know are from Quebec
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Nov 26, 2020 04:44
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I like how they have a billion vowels and slur over 'em all.
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Nov 26, 2020 05:14
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It's like wiping your rear end with silk OP
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Nov 26, 2020 05:42
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No, Swedish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEGoQ3QYhAE
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Nov 26, 2020 05:48
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It sucks but it is nowhere near annoying as a strong British accent which is half wet mouth and soggy lipped popping sounds. I'll listen to a French accent audiobook or podcast over a British one any day.
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Nov 26, 2020 05:50
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le haw haW hAW HAW HAWW! HAWWW!!! 
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Nov 26, 2020 05:52
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Das Boo posted:I like how they have a billion vowels and slur over 'em all. 
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Nov 26, 2020 05:53
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Try to say something intimidating or badass in French. You can't do it. It's like trying to describe a color to the blind.
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Nov 26, 2020 06:02
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non, monsieur
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Nov 26, 2020 06:05
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Oui.
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Nov 26, 2020 07:14
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Mylan posted:Try to say something intimidating or badass in French. You can't do it. It's like trying to describe a color to the blind. me, convicted of sodomy posted:le haw haW hAW HAW HAWW! HAWWW!!!
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Nov 26, 2020 07:27
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I think people who speak french tend to be bigger assholes to people trying to learn/speak it. Doesn't sound stupider than any other language though.
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Nov 26, 2020 07:37
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My French teacher in High School used to complain about people slurring words together like "Idunno." And then I took Latin and discovered that's what the French language is all about.
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Nov 26, 2020 08:02
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How about some evidence! So, there really isn't a set way of saying "yes" in Latin. You might affirm the question be asked or reply with something like "ita vero" or something. The various Romance languages eventually settled on using a word like "sic" (thus) if you were in what became Italy, Spain, or Portugal. If you were in Southern-ish France, you used "hoc" (that) as your word. And if you were even further up north in France, you would use "hoc ille (est)" (that's it). Eventually, through the process of too much wine and cigarettes, and Robespierre acting like Jacobin Moses, the French took that hoc ille and smashed it together to produce oui.
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Nov 26, 2020 08:10
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Pawn 17 posted:le haw haW hAW HAW HAWW! HAWWW!!! I know exactly how this laugh is supposed to sound and hate that there's no way to really spell it out. French seems to have degrees in-between "ah" "oh", and "oooh" and it annoys me greatly.
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Nov 26, 2020 08:16
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Obligatory https://youtu.be/OuN-YS8M5mc
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Nov 26, 2020 08:22
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It's real bad OP. German too. They're both awful, just the worst. Can you imagine French used to be the lingua franca (French tongue)? Yeesh.
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Nov 26, 2020 09:52
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French probably sounds fine if you pronounce all the letters but the French are incapable of this.
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Nov 26, 2020 10:41
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hon hon hon
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Nov 26, 2020 10:56
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Top 3 worst sounding languages 1. Quebec French 2. Mandarin 3. Non-Quebec French I wince each time they leave the H off of foreign words. Those F1 broadcasts that were sponsored by 'onda... And words ending with -in...  There are phrases here and there that sound cool though, such as my custom title. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Nov 26, 2020 11:36
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"'Ticia! That's French!"
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Nov 26, 2020 11:45
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oignon
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Nov 26, 2020 12:17
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I don't think French sounds bad but it's overrated compared to other romance languages. Italian is right there. Spanish Spanish has that weird lisp sound going on sometimes but Spanish in general can sound really good. English speakers can't talk, our only refuge is that there are a ton of accents that are all over the loving place and a couple of them sound good by accident, but there's an ocean of poo poo too. People make fun of the Deep South but Boston has an absolute toilet accent. I grew up near there but just goddamn what did the letter r ever do to you?
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Nov 26, 2020 12:30
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No, what a hosed up thing to say.
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Nov 26, 2020 12:39
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Japanese is a horrible language to listen to. Especially when spoken by a shrill younger woman that so many people seem to find enduring/sexy/whatever weird thing, sounds like a mouse being forced to speak Klingon.
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Nov 26, 2020 12:53
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Origin posted:How about some evidence! This is really cool, thanks for sharing. I love languages and nerdy facts in general. I can understand first year college written French, but speaking it so that I'm understood or understanding what is said to me, forget about it. I think tonal languages are like nails on a chalkboard. Maybe it's because I'm salty that I don't have an ear for it.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:03
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French is fine, I've heard Quebec French is like inherently comical to other French speakers though, kind of similar to Swiss German, and I'm saying that as someone who doesn't really speak much German, but Swiss German just sounds like an incomprehensible joke. sean10mm posted:I don't think French sounds bad but it's overrated compared to other romance languages. Italian is right there. Spanish Spanish has that weird lisp sound going on sometimes but Spanish in general can sound really good. Isn't that most Spanish/Castillian Spanish? Like especially the whole Castillian area and Andalucia and Murcia, they go all in on the lisping. Swedish is a garbage language.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:03
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:All I know is the biggest assholes I know are from Quebec Seriously. Quebec is the only place I've been actively anti-Semitism'ed by a complete loving stranger in public. Also they have no loving sense of personal space and they smell like a wet poo poo in a bag. gently caress Quebec and gently caress the Quebecois.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:07
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French is fine, I voted indifferent. The only language I thought sounded especially cool the first time I heard it was Icelandic. It's all pillowy and flowy and nice. It's like a bed for my ears.  sean10mm posted:Spanish Spanish has that weird lisp sound going on sometimes but Spanish in general can sound really good. After learning Spanish from Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Dominicans, Peruvians, Hondurans, Ecuadorians, Argentinians, Mexicans, etc., I'm from Queens, NY I heard some Spaniard tourists on the subway, and they sounded like robot newsanchors. quote:People make fun of the Deep South but Boston has an absolute toilet accent. I grew up near there but just goddamn what did the letter r ever do to you? I try to avoid disliking US accents because I don't want to sound like a classist jerk, but my god, Boston accents are horrible. Big Beef City posted:Japanese is a horrible language to listen to. Especially when spoken by a shrill younger woman that so many people seem to find enduring/sexy/whatever weird thing, sounds like a mouse being forced to speak Klingon. I like the way Japanese sounds when spoken in normal contexts by normal people, and your description is hilariously, disturbingly accurate. edit: Randarkman posted:Swedish is a garbage language. Swedish isn't even the garbagest northern European language it's Faroese, imho YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Nov 26, 2020 |
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Nov 26, 2020 13:12
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My Belgian cousin got married in rurual Quebec a couple of years ago and at the reception I was sat a table with cousins from Belgium and Lebanon. My Lebanese uncle, the father of the bride, gave a speech in French. The whole reception understood. The Québécois father of the groom gave his speech. Every other table burst out laughing except mine because we couldn't understand a single word.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:13
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So what I'm taking from this thread is that all languages are terrible.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:14
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Rhadamanthus posted:gently caress Quebec and gently caress the Quebecois. 250 years later, and they still refuse to accept that they lost: https://www.ctvnews.ca/plains-of-ab...celled-1.371078
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Nov 26, 2020 13:23
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Do French people actually go, "HONH HONH HONH?" Because if they do, I will move to France so I can get some of that joie de vivre.
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Nov 26, 2020 13:24
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I think it sounds nasally
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Nov 26, 2020 13:28
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I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse -fake news
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Nov 26, 2020 14:00
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All talking in any language is bad and sounds annoying. The only option is communicating with farts and gestures.
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Nov 26, 2020 14:04
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Every language sounds stupid as hell and the world would be a better place if everyone just shut the gently caress up once in a while
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Nov 26, 2020 14:10
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Origin posted:How about some evidence! Q: is this why Languedoc is Languedoc?
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