I love seeing English only speakers make fun of German and French, while technically English is German and French's inbread son.
Your typo has me crumbling. 🥖
Are you in pain?
It has me hungry, like I want to pretguette now. Or it is baguzel?
Old English was like a less-complicated German. It was the Norman French who fucked it up. Never forget 1066.
That's a gross simplification.
First, much of said "fucking it up" was done by Norse influence due to all the Danes. Started a bit earlier than 1066, something-something Canute, something-something Danelaw, something-something great pagan army.
Second, Norman French was one of two clearly separable waves of "French" influence, and the commoners' Germanic language after it was still very different from what happened after the other wave.
Third, that other wave was Angevin French, which, yeah, made a big influence, in huge part because it happened in the time when English kings were trying to conquer much of France for themselves, and didn't see themselves as English kings really.
The Normans just spoke French, it's everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!
I know all about etymology and language evolution.
I still think it's stupid to write "EAU" to say "O".
all french loanwords should be englishized, this weird reluctancy of english to transliterate or adapt the foreign word to it only causes more confusion
Wait until they find out what "RSVP" stands for.
Absolutely hate when someone asks me to "rsvp please".
Redundant acronym syndrome bothers me too. It irks me that the wikipedia page for it is "RAS Syndrome" which in itself is echoing the issue it's describing. That shit has to be intentional.
It's like how hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. That's some fucked up shit. Even it's more official word "sesquipedalophobia" is still a bit long for anyone who experiences that fear.
That shit has to be intentional.
I'm pretty sure it is, but not strictly by Wikipedia. It credits some 2001 column for coming up with it.
Post memes here.
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