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please welcome to the stage DJ D-Sweet, here to make that Debussy POP on his French turntable
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Thinkin bout that debussy
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Nov 15, 2022 20:04
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My d is sweet
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Brawnfire posted:It's French so it probably exists as a ghost of a phoneme that you never actually voice but it's wrong if you don't as well Then there's the opposite of this, when people make things too French and say "now, without further adieu..."
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Nov 16, 2022 01:19
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You pronounce the T in Valet
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Nov 16, 2022 01:26
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Tree Bucket posted:Then there's the opposite of this, when people make things too French and say "now, without further adieu..." Frenchadelphia "Yo, pass that jean over here." "Jean?" "Yeah, the jean. Pass me that jean." edit oh my god Jawn Valjawn is such a good username
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Nov 16, 2022 01:31
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Tree Bucket posted:Then there's the opposite of this, when people make things too French and say "now, without further adieu..." That drives me nuts. Who is saying goodbye? Goddamn, people!
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Nov 16, 2022 01:37
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"And now, Mr Bond, without further goodbyes, it is time for you to die!"
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Nov 16, 2022 01:52
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce the T in Valet And the 'r' in foyer.
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Nov 16, 2022 02:16
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:And the 'r' in foyer. I've been foying wrong all this time
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Nov 16, 2022 02:19
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Baron von Eevl posted:edit oh my god Jawn Valjawn is such a good username I think I'd prefer Gene Valgene.
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Nov 16, 2022 02:25
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Captain Hygiene posted:Well, I guess I halfway learned a new thing because I thought it was tout suite. I dunno if the de is just smushed in quickly enough that I never noticed it, or if the times I've heard it just left that out by mistake. I'm guessing the latter. there are regional dialects where the final t in "tout" is pronounced and the "de" is skipped over (it would be awkward to say both). but you have to say the t or the d, otherwise you end up sounding like an old-timey racist caricature
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Nov 16, 2022 02:31
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Captain Hygiene posted:Thinkin bout that debussy debop that debussy
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Nov 16, 2022 03:03
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If the "de" was fully ignored there would be no stop on the first vowel of the phrase and it'd sound like "too sweet" instead. It's like the difference between how most people would pronounce "stay" vs "state" in fluid speech. The "t" isn't fully pronounced but it still affects the pronunciation
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Nov 16, 2022 07:56
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Wasabi the J posted:debop that debussy the rhythm of debussy the beat
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Nov 16, 2022 08:07
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would you please offer our guests some whores devours?
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Nov 16, 2022 08:11
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A bit of a stretch, because I found out years and years ago, but in the song American Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the opening lyrics are: 'Well, she was an American girl/raised on promises', NOT 'Well, she was an American girl/raised by Protestants'.
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Nov 16, 2022 08:36
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doctorfrog posted:would you please offer our guests some whores devours? Yum, I love Puttanesca
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Nov 16, 2022 11:56
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Kantesu posted:Yum, I love Puttanesca Nice!
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Nov 16, 2022 12:47
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce the T in Valet I work in the horse racing industry. Every jockey has a valet, and everyone in the business says, “VAL-ett.” So when I hear, “val-AY” out in the real world it sounds really wrong. Like when someone says, “catsup.”
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Nov 16, 2022 13:01
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce the T in Valet But not in Claude Monet. e; Content. Realized recently how much French I actually know to talk with a coworker who only speaks French. And how little other people know that a lot of words are the same just pronounced in a funny accent like Onion is Ognion. And salad is... well you know. One hiccup tho when they asked me to print out labels for the food prep telling me 4 and 4. I thought oh four of each of two labels when they meant 8 of one label. MariusLecter has a new favorite as of 13:36 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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I think the horse racing valet is from the British pronunciation of valet with the T, which is just them pronouncing valet wrong on purpose (as a joke?).
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think the horse racing valet is from the British pronunciation of valet with the T, which is just them pronouncing valet wrong on purpose (as a joke?). Jeeves would never joke about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNiq7jrdYXY&t=100s
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Nov 16, 2022 15:45
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Aah, the french https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy2LRxdlgWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2TWBBxwhbU gently caress em. wonderful people, love them but god whyy ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 17:00 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Nov 16, 2022 16:52
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About the 4+4 thing.
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MariusLecter posted:About the 4+4 thing. 
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Nov 16, 2022 17:10
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In Montreal back at the turn of the millennium there was a certain point where everybody just straight up stopped saying years. Just find whatever way we could to avoid saying it. Like instead of May 30 1991, we'd say May 30, 8 years ago, even in official records Anything was better than "mille neuf-cent quatre-vignt et onze" (One thousand, nine hundred, four twenties plus eleven)
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Nov 16, 2022 17:20
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I don't like the French language to me it sounds mush-mouthed and nasally, I could just be a bad person though.
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Women speaking French is hot
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The strange thing about french numbers is that there are dialects of it that have perfectly reasonable words for those numbers - octante for 80, nonante for 90 for example. It's just that speakers of "normal" french refuse to use them.
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Nov 16, 2022 18:19
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Weembles posted:The strange thing about french numbers is that there are dialects of it that have perfectly reasonable words for those numbers - octante for 80, nonante for 90 for example. Those are hydrocarbons you rube!
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Nov 16, 2022 18:25
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Per Eddie Izzard: I do like the French, but they can be a little bit loving French.
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Nov 16, 2022 18:44
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This was neat! I love stuff like this. Also I just realized why some posts say "this user has a new favorite." It never clicked for me that I only saw it in PYF threads 
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MariusLecter posted:About the 4+4 thing. the correct way is 7+4.5*20
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MariusLecter posted:About the 4+4 thing. Danish: Syvoghalvfems (seven and half five???) Finnish: yhdeksänkymmentäseitsemän (no idea how it's composed, any Finns want to break it down?)
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for fucks sake posted:Finnish: yhdeksänkymmentäseitsemän Probably pointing to a pile of exactly 97 potatoes.
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Yhdeksänkymmentä = 90 (yhdeksän = 9, kymmentä = 10) Seitsemän = 7 Finnish numbers are p simple
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Say what you will about the crafty Finn they actually know how to count over there. Which is more I can say about the sausage-eating southrons in Denmark.
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The Danish number system is absolutely bonkers but has to do with the fact that it’s derived partly from a base-20 system instead of base-10, like most sane number systems. The weird cases in French are also derived from historical base-20 poo poo which used to be more common in Europe several centuries ago.
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Yeah it's hardly that uncommon in historical English either, see "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" or "four score and seven years ago...,"
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