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french sounds cool. dutch and japanese are the dumbest sounding languages
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Nov 29, 2020 15:58
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:dutch and japanese are the dumbest sounding languages Aw, I think Dutch sounds adorable. 
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Nov 29, 2020 17:06
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I like French but the way they name numbers after 20 is dumb as hell imo
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Nov 29, 2020 17:11
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I didn't know about the numbers thing, wow
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Nov 29, 2020 17:59
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You'd think that oo la la is a stereotype but it isn't. It's wild when you hear your first "ooooo la la la la la la". Six las.
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Nov 29, 2020 18:35
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Zybourne Clock posted:My favorite fact about the language is adjectives come after nouns, except for a collection of fifteen unrelated words which instead go before. French grammar reflects French attitudes. In high school my teacher gave us a mnemonic for remembering which adjectives go before the noun, but it fell apart once I got into college and learned more words, including adjectives that can go either way and actually change their meaning depending on their position.
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Nov 29, 2020 18:36
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:It's wild when you hear your first "ooooo la la la la la la"
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Nov 29, 2020 18:39
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Zybourne Clock posted:My favorite fact about the language is adjectives come after nouns, except for a collection of fifteen unrelated words which instead go before. French grammar reflects French attitudes. No Pants posted:In high school my teacher gave us a mnemonic for remembering which adjectives go before the noun, but it fell apart once I got into college and learned more words, including adjectives that can go either way and actually change their meaning depending on their position. You can put them before or after in almost every case. It's a choice and most of the time putting the adjective after the noun will make you sound like a pompous rear end in a top hat or someone trying to be poetic and failing at it.
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Nov 29, 2020 18:44
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yeah well i'm complaining about the exceptional ones, especially you, grand.
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Nov 29, 2020 19:07
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free hubcaps posted:dang thats cool it is. it's easy to see in a word like château, which is cognate with castle. the circumflex used to represent a different pronunciation, but now it's just a linguistic artifact. the Academie recommended getting rid of all of them except the ones that mark what would otherwise be homographs, but that made everybody mad. Zybourne Clock posted:My favorite fact about the language is adjectives come after nouns, except for a collection of fifteen unrelated words which instead go before. French grammar reflects French attitudes. the mnemonic for this is T-BAGS, which lol. time, beauty, age, goodness, size. a few of them change meaning depending on placement. "mon vieux professeur" is "my former professor," but "mon professeur vieux" is "my professor who is old."
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Nov 29, 2020 20:16
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YeahTubaMike posted:Aw, I think Dutch sounds adorable. Frisian sounds like a brain-damaged person trying to speak English to be fair i'm sure the inverse is true as well
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Nov 29, 2020 21:23
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eSports Chaebol posted:Frisian sounds like a brain-damaged person trying to speak English some of those dutch dialects look like quasi-english even in written form
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Nov 29, 2020 21:34
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I got through an entire transaction in German bc I can count to 12 and pronounce things and I got through an entire transaction in Dutch bc I apparently look Dutch and could read the numbers on the cash register
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Nov 29, 2020 21:37
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I'm learning French right now because I'm Canadian and if I'm gonna be bilingual I might as well pick the other language that shows up on all our product labels. It's like a free textbook with every bottle of shampoo and bag of chips! For example, did you know "all dressed potato chips" is "croustilles assaisonnées"? I do because I'm a messy loser who's had an empty chip bag on the floor in front of him for weeks. French is neat, all languages are neat, open your mind and stop being a turd about dumb poo poo. Plus we all know the worst language is written Dutch. Lord spare me from having to see anything written down in that goofy-rear end swamp language. Also I'm playing through Pokemon X (the one set in not-France) in French and did you know Psyduck is Psykokwak in French okay that's all, thought you should know, au revoir.
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Nov 29, 2020 21:46
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Diet Poison posted:I'm learning French right now because I'm Canadian and if I'm gonna be bilingual I might as well pick the other language that shows up on all our product labels. It's like a free textbook with every bottle of shampoo and bag of chips! For example, did you know "all dressed potato chips" is "croustilles assaisonnées"? I do because I'm a messy loser who's had an empty chip bag on the floor in front of him for weeks. quebecois isn't french
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Nov 29, 2020 21:51
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No Pants posted:In high school my teacher gave us a mnemonic for remembering which adjectives go before the noun, but it fell apart once I got into college and learned more words, including adjectives that can go either way and actually change their meaning depending on their position. BAGS, beauty age goodness and size. But if you want to remember which verbs past tenses are conjugated with etrê just ask MRS DR VANDERTRAMP. I learned French in Africa and its a much better dialect than Parisienne. Its way slower for one. It also doesnt use the weird throaty "R" sound. I had fun turning heads Nice and Cannes. I just spoke French as I knew it. I had people say things like: "Your French is very good, but you have the accent of a Dakar street hawker".
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Nov 29, 2020 21:51
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free hubcaps posted:some of those dutch dialects look like quasi-english even in written form Its been a while since i was in linguistics school but I think frisian is the closest language to english.
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Nov 29, 2020 21:51
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Empty Sandwich posted:I got through an entire transaction in German bc I can count to 12 and pronounce things and I got through an entire transaction in Dutch bc I apparently look Dutch and could read the numbers on the cash register I was once in germany and wanted to get the full normal citizen experience so I ordered some chinese food at a mall one day. The lady at the counter was chinese and did not speak english at all. My choices were chinese or german. Thankfully I figured out that schwein on the menu was pork so I ordered one of those in my best german accent which may or may not have been offensive to do. still not sure but she understood enough. Then as the transaction went on she started saying something in what even I could tell was heavily accented german. It took a bit of pantomiming but eventually it occurred to me I was being asked about a drink. I didn't know how answer that, was too dumb to even say wasser on the spot, so I just smiled and said nein danke a bunch and eventually I got my food. it wasn't that great. that is one of the two times in my life where I had to carry out some form of transaction where neither party understood each other's language.
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Nov 29, 2020 22:01
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The_Continental posted:But if you want to remember which verbs past tenses are conjugated with etrê just ask Methanar posted:quebecois isn't french They don't even teach quebec french in schools here, which always struck me as a little funny (possibly some kind of passive-aggressive? In a "sure we'll teach your language but not your weirdo dialect" way). If you live in Canada you're more likely to end up in Quebec than France... then again, I've never been to Quebec, but I've been to Paris. Took a photo with a "Royale with cheese" poster and everything.
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Nov 29, 2020 22:48
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Vietnamese is the only language I know of that always sounds bad and weird to me. Korean sounds fine normally, but becomes incredibly annoying when spoken like it is in their soap operas. Instant migraine. This is all purely from an aesthetic standpoint, of course.
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Nov 29, 2020 22:53
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Diet Poison posted:good thing I'm not learning quebecois you tabarnac de calice. "Croustilles assaisonnées" definitely sounds like those quebec only translations though, in france you'd probably say chips.
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Nov 29, 2020 23:07
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unpacked robinhood posted:"Croustilles assaisonnées" definitely sounds like those quebec only translations though, in france you'd probably say chips. the cool thing about quebec is they are even more isolationist than france when it comes to hating the english and their loan words
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Nov 29, 2020 23:38
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unpacked robinhood posted:"Croustilles assaisonnées" definitely sounds like those quebec only translations though, in france you'd probably say chips. Good point. In France they have KFC, and in Quebec (and on one side of every bucket in Canada) it's PFK. I'm pretty sure I heard French stop signs even just say STOP instead of ARRET, though I don't know how much truth there is to that. I was surprised to learn how much English the French have incorporated, since we always hear what tight-asses they are about it. Like weekend is week-end and email is e-mail.
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Nov 29, 2020 23:59
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Diet Poison posted:Haha what? Explain. I've only just hit past tenses in my studies and they gently caress with me. It's être conjugated verbs. Can't do them all but à lot of motion verbs (descendre, rentrer, for example) get conjugated with être. Il est mort/descendu/rentré as opposed to il a mort etc. Diet Poison posted:good thing I'm not learning quebecois you tabarnac de calice. Where I was it was a mix of quebec and parisian french. Learned a lot of nouns that got some very quizzical looks in france. Easy test: what's a watermelon in french?
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Nov 29, 2020 23:59
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the Spanish classes... hell, most of the language classes in my high school were taught by people who were at best not fluent. but it was worst in Spanish. the textbook we had was teaching us some especially recherché and bookish Continental Spanish, so I ended up in the awkward position of being the tutor for a native speaker from Mexico, explaining poo poo like why "usted" was abbreviated "Vd" in this book. as a side note, my father misunderstood the story and said "he didn't know what VD is?!"
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Nov 30, 2020 00:00
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ilmucche posted:Easy test: what's a watermelon in french? not much... what's a watermelon in french with you? (my favorite example of this poo poo is "radis a cheval" for Quebecois horseradish)
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Nov 30, 2020 00:02
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the quebecois gave us poutine and for that they are always welcome in north america
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Nov 30, 2020 00:04
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Synthetic Hermit posted:How on Earth does "c'est trois" become "sey twa"? I won't blame you if you don't believe me but once you know the rules for French pronunciation it's way more consistent about them than English is. Fun fact: a lot of French speakers think that capital letters don't require accents. This is false. It's simply because the purpose-designed French AZERTY keyboard is incapable of typing them (whereas on my Spanish keyboard I can do this easily) You also need to press shift for numbers and periods. The French keyboard, to make up for this does include a "μ" key and also one for "ù", which appears in precisely one word in the French language.
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Nov 30, 2020 02:41
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Captain Splendid posted:Fun fact: a lot of French speakers think that capital letters don't require accents. I had to use a French keyboard once. It was like solving a 5 star logic puzzle.
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Nov 30, 2020 03:05
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French sounds like a loose stool you have to wipe 1000 times to keep your underwear clean.
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Nov 30, 2020 06:46
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French sounds better when you understand it a bit so you can tell one word from another.
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Nov 30, 2020 08:00
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*drunk Parisian slurring all his words together, omitting all the word endings, choking on his own tongue* wow this is is truly the language of love
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Nov 30, 2020 08:03
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Diet Poison posted:Also I'm playing through Pokemon X (the one set in not-France) in French and did you know Psyduck is Psykokwak in French okay that's all, thought you should know, au revoir.  the real PSYKOKWAK is that Farfetch'd is named Canardticho in french , a porte-manteau between canard(duck) and artichaut(artichoke) when he is in fact carrying a motherfucking leek. That's far fetched.Diet Poison posted:Good point. In France they have KFC, and in Quebec (and on one side of every bucket in Canada) it's PFK. I'm pretty sure I heard French stop signs even just say STOP instead of ARRET, though I don't know how much truth there is to that. I was surprised to learn how much English the French have incorporated, since we always hear what tight-asses they are about it. Like weekend is week-end and email is e-mail. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Nov 30, 2020 08:21
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The_Continental posted:BAGS, beauty age goodness and size. yeah that's the one, except it was BANGS with an N for number i think. but there are some like ancien, where it could be literally ancient (after) or just the previous [noun] (before), or grand where it could be big in size (after) or great in quality (before) but only if you're talking about a man. maybe all this is different for conversational/informal french like someone mentioned. i also remember dr mrs vandertramp
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Nov 30, 2020 08:57
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Captain Splendid posted:This is false. It's simply because the purpose-designed French AZERTY keyboard is incapable of typing them (whereas on my Spanish keyboard I can do this easily) I always thought I was too dumb to figure out how to put accents on capital letters, at least now I know it can't be done. The shift for numbers thing is double hosed because the french use commas instead of the decimal point. Period is a shift-key activation on a french keyboard, comma isn't so typing stuff into excel and calculator is a pain. Commas v decimal points is one of those weird cultural things no one will ever tell you because it's naturally ingrained. It's how you write numbers.
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Nov 30, 2020 09:04
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ilmucche posted:I always thought I was too dumb to figure out how to put accents on capital letters, at least now I know it can't be done. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Nov 30, 2020 11:11
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Most linuxes: Capslock + é = É Windows: who loving knows, try copy pasting from the internet it's faster.
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Nov 30, 2020 11:23
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enomie posted:French sounds like what it is... a bunch of Welsh people who were forced to speak Latin to each other for hundreds of years. Western France is more Germanic than Gaulic. You know, from the Franks and what not. eSports Chaebol posted:Frisian sounds like a brain-damaged person trying to speak English Old English and Frisian are mutually intelligible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34
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Dec 1, 2020 02:42
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"Particuliarement" is the best sounding word in any language I speak. That's ONE AND A HALF WHOLE LANGUAGES, OP!
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tetsuo posted:I like French but the way they name numbers after 20 is dumb as hell imo Big Scary Owl posted:I didn't know about the numbers thing, wow French got nothin' on Danish when it comes to numbers: Grandmother of Five posted:On account of all the unfounded criticism of the Danish language and number system, I have decided to help any potential non-Scandinavians reading this thread who may be having trouble deciding on which of the Nordic languages they should chose to learn on account of being too lazy and stupid to learn all of them.
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