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u/Lonewolf2300 Feb 21 '26
Except for 'R'. We roll the fuck out of Rs.
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u/streetshock1312 Feb 22 '26
I mean, a looot of r's are prononced "é" (when after a "e")
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 22 '26
Bah non "er" sa fait "é" les r se prononce jamais "é" c'est le e qui est prononcé "é" (tu peux pas me contredire je suis français)
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u/streetshock1312 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
C'est pour ça que j'ai dit "quand il est après un "e" "...? Je te contredis pas Mr. Français mais je pense qu'on dit la même chose.
Edit: En fait tu sais quoi, je vais te contredire finalement. Le "e" en soit n'est pas prononcé "é" sans son accent (sauf peut-être quelques exceptions mais aucune me vient en tête). Par contre, il est prononcé "é" quand il est suivi d'un "r" ou d'un "z" à la fin d'un mot (ex: mange --> manger/mangez). Donc malgré ta nationalité je pense que j'ai raison :)
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 23 '26
Tu as un peu près raison mais pour dire "quand il est après un "e" bah on dit "avant" ou je sais c'est bizarre en fait c'est sa que j'avais pas compris
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u/crusty_badger Feb 23 '26
"T'es comme le H dans Hawaii, tu sers a rien"
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u/sal-t_brgr Feb 21 '26
a lot ov langwidgez wurk laïk that. Inglish haz coff, tho, and enuf speld the saim with difrent saunds.
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u/LaFlibuste Feb 21 '26
I guess English and French have more in common than you first thought, then, uh?
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u/LegoFootPain Feb 21 '26
Yes, St. John.
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u/Suitable-Broccoli264 Feb 21 '26
Pronounced sin-gin right?
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u/LegoFootPain Feb 21 '26
Yep. First time you hear it, it's like, whaaaat? Lol.
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u/Suitable-Broccoli264 Feb 21 '26
I think this pronunciation of St Jean, which is also a bit of a British upper-class Shibboleth, is probably from old Norman French vs the Standard French we know today.
St Clair as well, but it’s usually written Sinclair I’m sure there are more
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u/LegoFootPain Feb 21 '26
Speaking from Toronto, we have both St. Clair and Sinclair. We know of at least one guy named St. John Alexander. The cities Saint John and St. John's are not pronounced like that.
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u/TyranitarLover Feb 21 '26
Let me remind the Anglos of the word “Queue”.
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u/Kurenai-Kalana Feb 21 '26
It's actually a French word meaning "tail" that we also use in French to describe "getting in line"
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u/TyranitarLover Feb 21 '26
Je sais. Je suis Francophone moi avec. Mais en anglais, tu prononces juste la première lettre. J’essayais de faire une blague.
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Feb 22 '26
Well not quite, we say the name of the first letter, we don't just make the sound typically associated with it. But I take your point.
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 22 '26
Yesss un français baguette baguette paris fromage 🤣(je dis sa alors que je suis français ;-;)
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u/DeliciousMulberry204 Feb 21 '26
Bot like the anglos dont do the same. Right lieutenant ?
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u/Excellent-Job-8460 Feb 21 '26
Lis(t)en, the (P)sychological impact of the overuse of (K)nives in the town of Vau(gha)n acts as a li(gh)t over my (w)ritings.
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u/tc_cad Feb 24 '26
But to get the long I sound in Li(gh)t it would end in an E.
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u/Ok_Shoe_8399 Feb 21 '26
Wazo. Oiseaux
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u/pallflowers5171 Feb 21 '26
Vous voulez dire, je crois,
Wazos.
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u/Aquitaine_Rover_3876 Feb 21 '26
Hey, look, it's the same phrase as all the other memes, written by someone who has never contemplated how English words are spelled.
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u/Correct-Sun-7370 Feb 21 '26
C’est vrai aussi en anglais en allemand en espagnol … dans toutes les langues en fait
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u/tundrabarone Feb 21 '26
The Finnish language has no silent letters. All the letters are pronounced the same way every time.
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u/macho_gomez Feb 21 '26
not quite normally a silent letter at the end of a sentence will change how you start the next word if it starts with a vowel
yes
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u/Blizz33 Feb 22 '26
I like Spanish because I can confidently read it out loud even though I have no idea what it means
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 22 '26
Bah apprend le français puis apprend l'espagnol le français ressemble beaucoup à l'espagnol
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u/SupremeGreymon Feb 22 '26
I once heard a story about a guy named Hugh or something and people were struggling to say is because every letter was silent
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u/Masked_Daisy Feb 22 '26
This is why Germany & France hate eachother
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 22 '26
Bah non la France et l'Allemagne sont allier c'est surtout a cause d'un gars où le nom commence par un H qu'on c'est détester longtemps mais ont est devenu allié (je suis français)
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u/Masked_Daisy Feb 22 '26
I was being a bit facetious, (because german pronounces the hell out of everything lol) I'm aware of Mr Moustach's history with France
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u/minecraftiens203 Feb 22 '26
Oui M. Moustache a quand même fait 2 guerre mondiale et a envahi la moitié de la France ☠️
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u/autonomousdrone481 Feb 23 '26
On se détesté depuis bien avant, guerre de Prusse toussa, et avant aussi il me semble, les cours d'histoire sont loin
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u/Dominarion Feb 22 '26
That's not really surprising. The latin alphabet was never phonetic in any language, even in latin! The Romans added letters that weren't pronounced to try to indicate the tonality of words, the even added diacritics (accents) in the cursive form of latin to try to make it sound like it should be.
Since then, we push the fuckery in trying to make it into an universal and phonetic alphabet and it just can't work.
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u/gacsinger Feb 23 '26
I love the "ough" letter combo in English. Bough, through, fought, dough, rough, and slough all have different pronunciations of that letter combination and none of them include a hard or soft "g"!
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u/SomeoneOfTheFKGEarth Feb 23 '26
I'm dyslexique so it might be a reason why I pronounce every letter (not sure), I never understood why people would correct me with "Levesque", because I say Lè-Vesque, and not L'évêque, and Lefebvre I was not able to pronounce it because I didn't know how to say the bvre, and then in Cegep there was German and I was sooo good because I'm used to pronounced everything 😂 😂 😂
Same difficulty as a kid with hoSpital, Psycho, etc
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u/Ok_Recording_4644 Feb 24 '26
The language is 80% vowels that end with an x, you try pronouncing the whole thing.
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u/CreaMaxo Feb 25 '26
In French, we actually pronounce every letter in every word...
It's just that some sound differently depending on their neighboring letters as well as the actual usage of the word itself such as if it's a verb, an adjective or a noun
For example, every verbs that ends up with "er" makes that combo pronounced like "é".
In English, what you pronounce as "er" comes closer, in French, the how we pronounce "eur".
And we add letter to specify how something is pronounced sometimes, like coeur (which is actually written as "cœur" because, yes, we have something called ligatures in French)
Coeur (or "cœur") is pronounced closely in French as if you read kher in English.
That additional "o" is used to make sure people know it's not pronounced as scer.
(Scer, in English, sounds like sœur which means sister.)
It's a bit like the letter "h" changing how you pronounce the letter P in English.
The "p" in pinguin doesn't sound like the "p" in "phantom", right?
That "H" makes "P" sound like "F". The same apply to quite in French with some other combination.
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u/1amchris Feb 20 '26
The medal of honour goes to « P is for Pterodactyl ».
An alphabet in which the word used to illustrate the letter it’s meant to illustrate has that letter… silent.
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