It's so weird how the French language seems to ignore the last letter in words like were they getting paid by the character?
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@Alice Précisément !
@Alice I used to read French well enough to review a 200 page chip design document, but I really struggled to follow a conversation - every word blurred together into a sound that seemed to have far too many vowels.
That trip was where I met someone with a gloriously self-important last name: Dieu-de-ville - God-of-the-town.
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Between us, Alice, a Frenchman stole my girl 50 years ago.
But I'm gonna forgive both of them in the not too distant future.
And that's pretty much all I have to say about the French right now.
Well, I DID think of one other thing to say: Why is their cuisine so darn good?
@Alice funny are the two different h, both are silent but one is even more silent than the other
I have a long-term project to learn French and I once had a French grad student. I asked him to speak more slowly—"plus lentement"—and he said, "You could also say 'moins vite'." Which means "less quickly." I said, "Oh, is that more idiomatic?" And he said, "Well, it's fewer sounds."
And it was the WAY he said it. Like it was obvious to any person of straightforward good sense that the most desirable thing is to convey your meaning while making the fewest possible sounds.
THAT'S why French is like that!
@Alice Fuckin’ weird, innit?
@Alice they are perfectly capable of ignoring up to 4 last letters, but omit writing one of those letters and the sound changes
@Alice how is "qu'est ce que c'est" three, sometimes two syllables? Monsters!