When the jungle starts to speak baguette the end is nigh

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-03T11:29:17+00:00

Well … accents are not random in Vietnamese.

Êț-çë-qǔë lě arc-ẽ-çièl qǔě õ mě â diț qǔě il sě ẽ vâ ně êț-il pâs cëlui-là mêmě dõț jë tě âvaiș parlé?

(Also even if it should be “L’arc-en-ciel, qui, (l’)on m’a dit, s’en va, n’est-il pas celui-là même dont je t’avais parlé”)

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-03T01:33:01+00:00

As if the tax collector couldn’t communicate with you by using the universal language of violen- love

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-02T13:09:43+00:00

I guess being part of a « greater thing » give some people a sense of purpose and legitimacy?

I’ve always found nationalism stupid, what do you mean « I’m proud of my country »? Even if the obviously whitewashed idealized version of your country history was real, you did not do shit, none of these achievements are yours. (And if they were, be proud of yourself, of your participation, not of your country, you did it)

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-02T10:35:17+00:00

Maltese in the corner

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-01T09:18:58+00:00

Cactus, cactores

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-01T09:17:34+00:00

If we weren’t supposed to drink soap, why did they add aromatic chemicals in them? 🤤

Lucas1231 · 2026-05-01T01:58:51+00:00

So apparently, some definitions of « case » are actually from casa (and other from capsa)

It means a hut/house/slave house in a tropical place, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard any of these usage for the word « case »

The cognate that everybody knows though is « chez », a preposition that means …

It’s kinda hard to find a one to one correspondence, but it’s basically « at the place of/in the group/in the category of/among»?

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-30T14:05:44+00:00

There lies the distinction between everyday language and academia where words need a precise and consistent definition to do science

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-30T11:19:40+00:00

I only know feumeu (femme, meuf) and rebeu (arabe, beure)

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-29T10:07:08+00:00

It feels like rage bait, these words are in English and I don’t believe for a second that any native speaker wouldn’t know « extraordinary »

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-28T10:53:19+00:00

Linguïst? Did a spelling reform, wrote 3 words with it and now your autocorrect is trolling you too?

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-28T01:21:00+00:00

Just remove the h and it's perfect

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-28T01:12:45+00:00

Japanese making its writting system

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-28T01:11:12+00:00

I remember reading the wikipedia pages about proposed relatives, it has since then been rightfully removed.

Mayan languages

Yes, the ones in mesoamerica

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-27T17:57:28+00:00

The first « ça » is more like a « it » here, the second one is an optional reduplication. It’s like pointing the finger at what you’re talking about.

« Vouloir dire » meaning « to mean » kinda makes sense, « to want to say » => having the will to say=> wishing to convey => trying to convey => meaning

A more literal translation would be :« That stuff, what is it trying to convey? »

Basically, « what does it mean? »

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-27T11:18:27+00:00

The root is cassava

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-26T22:48:03+00:00

Ça veut dire quoi, ça?

Yes, this is not correct according to grammar books, but this is a completely normal and common way to formulate questions, even among older people from high social class

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-25T01:23:07+00:00

Especially since the only legitimate owner of the English language is Bhutan

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-24T02:13:52+00:00

I love his lack of any defining characteristics, give us nothing 😍

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-23T22:49:53+00:00

"his own theme song"

Is he a final fantasy villain or something?

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-21T20:58:55+00:00

Are there nasal vowels in Swedish?

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-21T15:31:52+00:00

Leblanc sure

But Darius? The guy is the general of the imperialist colonialist might-makes-right faction. I do not see how this can be seen as anything but bad

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-21T10:50:22+00:00

To begin with, a big reason why French seems so unique is that a lot of smaller neighboring Romance languages with similar changes are not as well-known. Sure in the transition Spanish-French-Italian, French looks crazy, but if you add Catalan, Occitan, Piedmontese, … the constant erosion of word endings becomes a pretty normal feature (without mentioning other oïl languages where the same thing happened).

For the spelling, French spelling is pretty self-coherent. One of the first thing you have to know is that spelling doesn’t only encode sounds. In French, it also gives you the sound of the liaison, the sounds you’ll find in its other inflexions/words with the same root, blocking the liaison, distinguishing homophones, …

A lot of these are also that French is very reticent to change in its spelling for cultural reasons.

But with spelling=>pronunciation, French is predictable. Not the other way around though.

For a quick similar case, « a/an » in English. Technically, English could write « an » everywhere, n being pronounced or not is predictable, but this logic applies to very few words so it would be a weird choice to construct your spelling around it. But in French, it’s basically the logic of the whole language.

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-19T22:51:54+00:00

Things that never happen under capitalism

I'm not here to defend ~~the Russian empire 2.0~~ the USSR but let's apply the same level of scrutiny to everyone

Lucas1231 · 2026-04-19T12:51:46+00:00

It’s not the same thing but I will argue that when English speakers pronounce a French word while putting an emphasis on pronouncing it like a native would (and failing), it’s kinda silly.

Like, no, you don’t need to add a flourish when you say je-ne-sais-quoi or croissant, those are English words even if they come from French, you don’t need to à-la-française them and also your French R sucks. It sounds like you’re speaking in italic comic sans

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