• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Kuno:

    who the fuck decided rendezvous would be pronounced like that

    You:

    Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist

    Kuno:

    what the fuck did you just call me

    Kunoesse:

    He called you Mongolian

  • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.

      Randevu.

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        2 years ago

        ‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french

        I think it could be spelled rendévou though

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.

        English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣