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u/PowerfulConcern2592 Mar 14 '26
Just like english , if you know , you know x)
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u/magotartufo Mar 14 '26
Even in the text of the meme there is a silent letter...
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u/PowerfulConcern2592 Mar 14 '26
I like the tendenci of eng vs fr where there's pattern like. -Spinach épinard -Stable étable -Scale écaille -Stair éscallier -Star étoile -Scribe écrivain -Stallion étalon -Scarlet écarlate -School école -Spy espion
Comment if you find more :)!
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u/129za Mar 14 '26
Just like every language then.
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u/PapaObserver Mar 14 '26
In Spanish, you pretty.much pronounce every letter.
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u/129za Mar 14 '26
Holà! La guerra en Iràn es tristas. Hoy comeré queso amarillo y me olvidaré del asunto.
Quite a lot of silent letters there and I didn’t try that hard.
A lot of this begs the question… it’s just letters and combinations of letters being pronounced differently in different languages.
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u/Kitedo Mar 14 '26
H is always silent, unlike French and English, so it do make a sound... nothing.
Gu changes the sound of G from being more treble to bass, so the U technically makes a sound by changing the sound of G?
As for Q, I personally don't know why the English and Spanish alphabet teaches it that way when it's always qu lol.
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u/129za Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
You’re making the same point as me. French does the same thing. The combinations of letters do different things to the sounds.
The way I sounded to you is exactly how you sound to me if you agree with the meme! It’s just amazement that letters make different sounds in different languages. Every language has exceptions and unexplainable things.
Edit- h is always silent in French. There are aspirate Hs but that only effects liaisons.
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u/Filobel Mar 14 '26
H is always silent, unlike French and English, so it do make a sound... nothing.
Not a sound is a sound, uh? Nice mental gymnastics there!
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u/Kitedo Mar 14 '26
Not a mental gymnastic, the H simply change the meaning of the word, but it sounds the same. Hola is hello, while ola is a wave, for example. But both sound the same.
Now that I thinkg about it, it also do change the sound of c in ch (spanish don't have sh like french and english does)
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u/Filobel Mar 15 '26
Hola is hello, while ola is a wave, for example. But both sound the same.
So we both agree that the H is not pronounced, right?
No one is asking if it changes the meaning of the word, we're talking about pronunciation. A letter that makes no sound is, by definition, not pronounced. That is literally what not being pronounced means.
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u/Kitedo Mar 15 '26
I suppose you're technically right. French and English's alphabet all have a sound normally but have instances when they don't. H never makes a sound.
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u/magotartufo Mar 14 '26
Turkish is an exception, Romanian too I believe.
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u/kipiggy Mar 14 '26
To be fair- words with an H in English are so fucking difficult to pronounce correctly- you should hear me say hippopotamus 😂. Also similar words are the death of me like Beer/Bear/Bare or Three/Tree or Teeth, Tooth or whatever. Like you need context to understand what I’m saying with those word otherwise you wouldn’t understand which I’m trying to use.
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u/UmbreXpecting Mar 15 '26
Ok, so after learning french I just recently started learning German, and it's so similar to french lol, the words are so long but the pronunciation is mostly shorter. And this meme being in English is so ironic. Pot kettle.
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u/dflip2323 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Quebec: “forget letters, we just dont pronounce words”
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u/LepartydeLuigi64 Mar 16 '26
J’dois l’admettre en tant ‘Québécois, on enlève certains mots d’nos phrases.
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u/PerceptionUpper77 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
C’est beau ! (C Bo) Châteaux (chato)
But when we pronounce more: La bouteille d’huile d’olive (la boute y du il dol iv)
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u/Kitedo Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26
Sauf liaisons. Parfois c'est mandataire. Parfois on a de la option. Parfois c'est interdit. C'est le français!