I would love to see how this shook out when the British start getting possessive about their language in petty retribution. US adopts “hick hoodrat” as its first language?
I hate it honestly. The french spent centuries ruling England and messing up our language just for the rest of the world to make fun of us for it as if it’s our fault.
[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception to the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell’em!
It’s not our fault French was made wrong.
it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling
rendez-vous’s pronounciation is perfectly regular in french
Rawndayvoo.
Careful, Col. Hans Landa might notice the accent.
Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Language®
I would love to see how this shook out when the British start getting possessive about their language in petty retribution. US adopts “hick hoodrat” as its first language?
Randy foos
One of my multilingual friends called English the mixed playdoh version of French and German.
I hate it honestly. The french spent centuries ruling England and messing up our language just for the rest of the world to make fun of us for it as if it’s our fault.
“Wah, I’m the British, and I’m upset about being colonized” that’s what you sound like
It’s spelt colonised
I would pronounce that “colon-iced”
I’m american but the romans and french taught them how to do it.
And if anyone calls me british ever again there will be consequences
Nice try, but if you were really american, you’d spell it conzequences.
Nice try Mr. Italiano.
Domo rigatoni, Mr Roboto
Don’t forget the ancient Latin that a bunch of scholars pulled in during the 1600s because the French descendants weren’t fancy enough.
Hahaha, that’s pretty good!
It is at least 3 languages in a trenchcoat.
[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception to the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell’em!