Admittedly the way French is pronounced is pretty dumb
It should be spelled “Rondevu”
Rondayvoo
But pronounced the other way 👍
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.
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
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.
Probably yes, but the rules are simple enough today that you don’t need a PhD to explain though thought, or tie vs tier, or… wait for it… live vs live, or record vs record, read vs read.
Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.
How could you say something so controversial yet so true?
Being racist to the Gauls I see
Actually, I blame the Franks.
Poor *anglophones
What the fuck did you just call me
They called you Angolan
Don’t dis those guys they’re adorable
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
We really need to finish this game. So many little gems spread across the way
kunoese nuts
Lmao gottem
Those damn mongorians!
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.
Shitty walls
“Goddamn Mongorians! Knock down my shitty wall!”
The thing about Mongolians is that their barbecue is not the traditional Korean barbecue.
As long as you speak the language most used in your country and English then you’re fine
English people: Holy shit, I’m doubly qualified to go out and explore the world
Was at the airport in Buenos Aires, English didn’t help me. Luckily I had learned a handful of useful phrases in Spanish.
Or russian before 2013.
genocide noises
Windows, planes, tea, door knobs, underpants. Putin will kill all russians untill all die by any means, even starting war.
Why was “fuck” censored? It doesn’t hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?
The FUCK you say to me?
They called you a f*cking bitch
Pretty sure its pronounced mongolian
Mong*lian
Really should have censored the M word.
Only a monolingual can call another monolingual “monolingual”.
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja
Was not expecting to see a Tim Minchin reference today.
How would you like to go to the school councelor?
How would you like to suck my balls?
The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
Déjà vu
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
French bashing is overdone and unfunny
39 people disagree apparently, not counting me. Humour is subjective after all. If anything, forcing your humour to others is even more overdone imo.
i dont rly care, just saying that its rly annoying and fucking dumb
Well I don’t care about your opinion either. We have so much in common 🥴
Why do you keep answering then
I may not care about your opinions, but I do care about getting that message to you. It’s called communication btw
What? I thought it was the main one.
C’est la vie
C’est la vie
C’est le guerre
C’est le pomme de terre
You leave potatoes out of this. They are literally the food of gods and glorious when fried!
Edit: I grew up on a farm next to a small river in Minnesota called Pomme de Terre. And due the light sandy soil, it was excellent for growing pomme de terres and sugar beets.
Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you’d use la
ah ok i will go fix it
Don’t tell me what to use.
Avec la pomme de terre on fait les frites 🍟
This is why they’re called FRENCH fries. Because we’re speaking French.
I love that ABBA song!
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
we stole it from the French
The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.
Actually the Normans, who were Vikings who rocked up in France and caused such a stink that the crown granted them lands in the north to shut them up. 1066 was basically a succession crisis between three cousins vying for the English crown.
whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense
that just about describes half the English vocabulary
I recently learned the correct spelling of the word prerogative and I still haven’t recovered.
Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?
at least it doesn’t have random h’s like thorough etc.
Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.
I hate English.
The funniest about this is that I once watched a video on interesting languages to learn and they were like “this language is super interesting because you spell everything the same as you pronounce it”… yeah like any normal language?
I understand languages get to change over time and once upon a time edinborough was actually pronounced close to it’s spelling, not the butchered edinbra of today. But why the fuck hasn’t the spelling catch up completely puzzles me, since no other language I’ve heard of has issues to the same degree.
La Marseillaise intensifies
Honestly, the original question was a good one. That snarky reply in the original picture was pretty douchey. There’s a lot of interesting history behind linguistics.
I mean, it’s pronounced like it’s spelled except for the Z.
But sometimes words in English have silent Zs like in the word “rendezvous”.
And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.
Randevu.
Its not pronounced randevou though, more like ron-day-voo
E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.
Rän-di-vü
TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S
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
Türk dilini sevmeye sebeplerin biri :)
Oh they are so smart, just like I don’t know, most countries in the world that don’t prefer imperial units and imperial era spelling
(The sarcasm is not directed to turkish though 😁)
Rondevu
How about Randaevoo ?
How about randeuwu?
Now even that sounds correct.
Just how many different pronunciations doe this word have?
I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.
English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣
In French, words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”. “ou” (in la Métropole) is similar to the sound in English “do”/“too”/“sue”/“shoe” etc. while “u” is similar to Standard German long “ü”/“üh” like in “Lüge” but the German one is relatively reduced and isn’t quite as frontal/strained/constricted.
‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french
I think it could be spelled rendévou though
Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.
Monolinguals are as culturally diverse as Mongolians. Just staying in one place, no need to expand horizons or learn anything new.
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.
*horse riding intensifies*
\horsing intensifies\
“Mongoloid? Who you callin’ a mongoloid?!”
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