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[–] [email protected] 104 points 8 months ago (8 children)

The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (7 children)

yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🀒

[–] Jerkface 13 points 8 months ago

What? I thought it was the main one.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense

that just about describes half the English vocabulary

[–] garbagebagel 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven't recovered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

at least it doesn't have random h's like thorough etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.

I hate English.

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[–] CurlyMoustache 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] LemmyKnowsBest 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

C'est la vie

C'est la guerre

C'est la pomme de terre

[–] CurlyMoustache 6 points 8 months ago

I love that ABBA song!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you'd use la

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

DΓ©jΓ  vu

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[–] gorysubparbagel 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's one of my all time favourite South park episodes.

Getting the local Chinese restauranteur to build the city wall... because the Chinese are good at building walls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"Goddamn Mongorians! Knock down my shitty wall!"

[–] Taniwha420 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

In Viking's defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.

[–] GeoGio7 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Being racist to the Gauls I see

[–] Taniwha420 7 points 8 months ago

Actually, I blame the Franks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I recently saw a tiktok (therefore I'm an expert) that showed that Old French was pronounced pretty much exactly how it was spelled.

Every language simplifies it's pronunciation over time, but usually they alter the spelling when they do, but French just said "miss me with that shit, dog" and decided just to change the rules about pronunciation instead

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I Heard that French monks were paid by the letter scribed, rather than the word, so they just put extra letters into everything using made up rules about spelling.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

How could you say something so controversial yet so true?

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[–] FooBarrington 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Kuno:

who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that

You:

Poor monolinguals. They can't seem to understand that other languages besides English exist

Kuno:

what the fuck did you just call me

Kunoesse:

He called you Mongolian

[–] tourist 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Lmao gottem

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Why was "fuck" censored? It doesn't hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?

[–] kazakhspy 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How would you like to go to the school councelor?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Really should have censored the M word.

Only a monolingual can call another monolingual β€œmonolingual”.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?

[–] andy_wijaya_med 21 points 8 months ago

Bilinguals aren't impressive at all. I think most people are bilinguals. Apparently, according to Journal of Neurolinguistics, we have more bilinguals (43 percent of the world population) rather than monolinguals (40 percent).

[–] uis 11 points 8 months ago

There are trilingual regions in my country. And one neighbouring country is mostly trilingual too(2 official languages + 1 foreign)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

As long as you speak the language most used in your country and English then you're fine

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

English people: Holy shit, I'm doubly qualified to go out and explore the world

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Monolinguals are as culturally diverse as Mongolians. Just staying in one place, no need to expand horizons or learn anything new.

[–] spamfajitas 43 points 8 months ago

The last time the Mongolians decided to expand their horizons, it didn't work out so well for a decent chunk of the rest of the world. I think it's perfectly fine they choose to keep things simple, tbh.

[–] BilboBargains 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What the fuck did you just call me

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] UmeU 10 points 8 months ago

The thing about Mongolians is that their barbecue is not the traditional Korean barbecue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

First Mongolians make the NoSQL database of my nightmares and now this... When will they learn!?

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[–] Wilzax 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It should be spelled "Rondevu"

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I know some of those words, nice!


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Ron-Day-Voo

rendezvous /rΓ€nβ€²dā-vooΝžβ€³, -dΙ™-/ noun

  1. A meeting at a prearranged time and place. synonym: engagement. Similar: engagement
  2. A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
  3. A popular gathering place. "The cafΓ© is a favorite rendezvous for artists."

monolingual /mŏnβ€³Ι™-lΔ­ngβ€²gwΙ™l/ adjective

  1. Using or knowing only one language.
  2. Using or knowing only one language. Opposite of multilingual. "monolingual speakers; a monolingual dictionary"
  3. Knowing, or using a single language.

Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East and North Asia. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 6.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia of China. In Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolian is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian script. In Inner Mongolia, it is dialectally more diverse and written in the traditional Mongolian script. However, Mongols in both countries often use the Latin script for convenience on the Internet.

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. The western extremity of Mongolia is only 37 km from Kazakhstan, and this area can resemble a quadripoint when viewed on a map. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres, with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea, and much of its area is covered by grassy steppe, with mountains to the north and west and the Gobi Desert to the south. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to roughly half of the country's population. The territory of modern-day Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, the First Turkic Khaganate, the Second Turkic Khaganate, the Uyghur Khaganate and others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Mongolic language

Mongolic my balls.

Gottem

[–] SpiceDealer 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I believe the proper insult is "Mongoloid" thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Monolingoloid

[–] taanegl 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

*horse riding intensifies*

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I mean, it's pronounced like it's spelled except for the Z.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

And the 'S'. And to be fair, the 'OU' could have just been a 'U'. Also, the 'E' could have been an 'A'.

Randevu.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Randevu

interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

just a funny sidenote :3

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