Why was “fuck” censored? It doesn’t hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?
How would you like to go to the school councelor?
How would you like to suck my balls?
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.
I know american sign language and english. Am I monolingual?
Wait…how do we count languages? Do programming languages count as a second language?
The FUCK you say to me?
They called you a f*cking bitch
Pretty sure its pronounced mongolian
Mong*lian
The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.
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.
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.
Right? If the pronunciation changes, change the spelling too.
Literally said how its spelt though? Am I missing something?
I’ve always heard it pronounced per-ogative, not prr-ogative
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.
yet another reason to hate the fr*nch 🤢
What? I thought it was the main one.
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
Déjà vu
La Marseillaise intensifies
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.
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.
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
Guerre and pomme de terre are both feminine too, so you’d use la
Don’t tell me what to use.
ah ok i will go fix it
I love that ABBA song!
Avec la pomme de terre on fait les frites 🍟
This is why they’re called FRENCH fries. Because we’re speaking French.
I believe the proper insult is “Mongoloid” thank you very much!
Monolingoloid
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.
How could you say something so controversial yet so true?
Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.
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
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.
Consistent and simple aren’t the same thing.
That being said, English is neither of those things, so it’s a bad comparison to make 🤣
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.
Except all those apostrophes are like whole Latin phrases that the French just ate!
Being racist to the Gauls I see
Actually, I blame the Franks.
They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?
Well nobody can objectively force something to impress you or not impress you. But most people speak more than one language natively or on a regular basis, hell just short of 2 billion people (1/4 the world’s population) alone are from the Indian subcontinent region, and there the high variation/diversity of languages throughout the region make speaking 3-4 languages well the norm.
Similar story with Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. And most people in Central Asia and many European parts of the former USSR speak Russian as a 2nd language (nearly all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and most Baltic people speak Russian to a high fluency, while also often speaking a 2nd and sometimes 3rd native language).
Then you consider language in European countries like the Netherlands (Dutch/English), Belgium (French/Dutch/English), Sweden (Swedish/English), Finland (Finnish/Swedish), Denmark & Norway (Denmark or Norwegian / some obscure highly derived dialect that’s different enough from the standard and common languages to be counted), Spain (Castillian/some other Spanish language), Italy (Standard Italian/some other Italian language). I’d say at least a third of Europeans speak more than one language natively and two thirds can speak more than one language well at all.
Despite being a massive continent, one thing that can be said about almost all of the socities there is that most of them are polylingual. Probably less so in Arabic-speaking majority countries.
Really, monolingualism is only the norm for anglo countries – especially the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand. Not so much in like half of Canada. I think it could be said that monolingualism is the norm in most of China too, but I’m not so sure about that. AFAIK it’s pretty mixed in Latin America but overall a majority of the people there speak only Spanish or Portuguese, save for places like Peru & Uruguay.
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).
I met a couple in Vanuatu - one of the world’s most language dense nations - whose mother tongues were mutually unintelligible, so they communicated using the country’s official language, Bislama. A lot of bilingual people don’t speak English. Plenty of Eastern Europeans don’t speak English (unpopular during communist rule) but speak say German or Russian as well as Serbocroatian or whatever.
When someone asks me which languages I speak, I say Italian.
“…and?” “Well, English of course”
“…and?” “…and that’s it”, I’d admit embarassed.
Among young educated people in most of Europe it is common to speak at least two languages beside your native one.
There are trilingual regions in my country. And one neighbouring country is mostly trilingual too(2 official languages + 1 foreign)
Admittedly the way French is pronounced is pretty dumb
Poor *anglophones
What the fuck did you just call me
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!”
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
kunoese nuts
Lmao gottem
We really need to finish this game. So many little gems spread across the way
Rendezvous? That’s French for Fuckin’!
So are they aware that they’re trying to shame a joke account that’s already doing a bit?
Do they think they’re winning? Are they in on the bit? What sort of cataclysm has to happen for Twitter people to wake up and go “oh my god, I WAS THE ASSHOLE THIS ENTIRE TIME, WHAT AM I DOING HERE”?
I’m glad I get to wipe my ass with what’s left of them without having to touch their vile community, I’ll call that a win.
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*horse riding intensifies*
\horsing intensifies\
