I don't know how much you know about France, and french politics specifically, but as a person born in France I want to tell you that you might have been mislead... From my point of view and with my knowledge, politics here is a shit show, basically the elite mock everyone, France is run by billionaires, happily oppressing the poor.

No, politicians don't give a shit about people striking. And the biggest haters of strikes are the citizens who don't like their life and privileges to be disturbed by people striking for their rights.

But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.

French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.

most of the letters

Queue

(and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren't pronounced similarly?)

Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can't know how to pronounce the second "read" until you get to "yesterday". Schrödingers pronunciation.

For those illiterates who need a clear example, "lead lead lead." Simple geography.

The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.

If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.