Thread 24555523

>Qu'est-ce que
>random t in the middle of words to "sound nice"
>doesn't have a word for 'weekend' or 'parking'
>90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four [times] twenty [plus] ten)
>there is no good word in French for "death", they use "mort" which also means "dead"
>there is no good word in French for "nobody", they use "personne" which also means "person"
>there is no good word in French for "money", they use "l'argent" which also means "the silver" (caveman tier)
>they add "pas" to every negative sentence for whatever reason, it's like a nervous tic that got out of hand

>>24555523 (OP)
Don't worry lil anon, I'll fix it for ya!

>>24555523 (OP)
>make this language like this other language

>>24555532
In Belgian French they use the word "nonante" (ninety) instead of the retarded French thing.

>>24555523 (OP)
In Belgian French they use the word "nonante" (ninety) instead of the retarded French thing.

Fuck French!

>he gets filtered by silent letters
ngmi

I learned French for a girl and now speaking it makes me horny please don‘t change anything

>>24555532
>Should we stop shitting on the street and use toilets like the rest?
>No! Let's be special!
pajeet tier logic

Having institutions to maintain this language is like guarding a pile of shit, all of french culture and normie obsession over it is illness that must be cleansed

>>24555523 (OP)
>doesn't have a word for 'weekend' or 'parking'
In Québec there's fin de semaine and stationnement. France's French is in cultural decline.

>>24556041
>"word"
>3 words
french is a suboptimal language with no benefits

>>24556065
It's a word because it has unified meaning.

>>24556041
the canadians keep it trad and the anglos and frogs let their language degrade at the hands of double digit iq refugees. what a twist

>>24556092
That's the whole point, instead of going "semainfin" or whatever like all other languages french uses 3 words, suboptimal with no benefits, just like all the rest of the language, mainly being orthographically opaque.

>>24556041
Québec should become independent and prevent the pajeetification.

>>24556163
English "weekend" is in reality "the week end" or "week end", so not like it's that big a difference. Removing the space between words is not necessarily something better. End of the day the meaning is the same.

>>24556163
Your optimal English language has a grammar so optimal and simple that it is Africa-tier. Great vocabulary, though.

>>24556000
I started learning Russian to impress a cute Russian girl.

>>24556923
how's it going so far?

>>24556925
She's in the Bay Area now, I'm still working on Russian on and off.

>>24556065
Quit normalizing other non-optimal languages too.

>>24555523 (OP)
fin du le week

>>24556065
>>24556163
Wouldn't it come out as something like [fɛ̃dsmɛn] in rapid speech anyway?

>>24557096
yea

>>24555523 (OP)
If you want a designed language learn lojban
Meanwhile, this is something that people slipped _into_ from Latin
I’m not sure if this really makes one think or not

>>24557074
You’re just going to have to speak it more slowly to make sure nobody mishears the slightest little deviation that totally changes the meaning of what you’re saying

>>24555523 (OP)
>This retarded language was considered by Europoors the best european language and the favorite lingua franca for like 800 years
Fucking grim
>Somehow English with its retarded irregolar pronuntiation is still a improvement as the current lingua franca

>>24558073
*Even more grim

I’ve decided to read nearly everything Maupassant wrote. I’ve already read a good 800+ pages of him.
Hugo seems like a titan of french literature but I haven’t even read anything by him besides a few poems so that’s exciting
I’ve been getting really excited about French literature again, I’ve got Claudine à l'école and lettres de mon moulin downloaded and ready to read
Vive la France! Whenever I encounter patriotism in Maupassant’s work a tear comes to my eye because of the love of France i feel despite never having set foot there nor talked to anyone french before
France is the most wonderful country in the world

>>24556000
This but Spanish and girls, plural.

>>24556041
> fin de semaine
It’s the same in Spanish, fin de semana.

>>24557018
She’s almost certainly having disappointing sex with someone who works in the technology sector.

>>24555523 (OP)
Wait until you find out about Japanese

>>24555523 (OP)
There is literally a department of the French government tasked with ensuring "correct" French is spoken in public life, and that foreign loanwords don't creep in.
This has ossified the French language. It never develops. All it does is stagnate and die.

>>24556184
re tard ed

Something that pisses me off lately is possessive pronouns and how they agree with objects rather than subjects. As in "She's riding her horse" vs "Elle monte son cheval." Somehow this makes me irrationally angry.

>French is retarded
>English is retarded
>German is retarded
>Esperanto is retarded

Let's just go back to grunting and screaming, it was better for everyone anyways.

>>24558111
And stationnement is estacionamiento (at least in the dialect I know). I wonder if Québecoise French is more similar to Spanish overall.

>>24558140
what's weird in japanese? any examples?

>>24558425
This but unironically. Language was a mistake.

>>24558298
>bro you need more ebonics and creole like us Americans so your language can stay vibrant!
Shan’t

>>24558441
Kanji, mainly. Also plenty of native/Sino-Japanese doublets.

>>24555989
funny how frogs fucked their silent letters into their language but at least they have auto-correct

yea, whats up with the "pas" thing?

>>24559340
Basically, it originated as a form of emphatic negation- "je ne mange pas", ("I don't walk a step"), used in parallel with forms like "je ne bois goutte" ("I don't drink a drop"), "je ne vois point" ("I don't see a speck/dot"). Then the emphatic usage of "pas" generalized out from that usage (in Early Modern French we also see "point" used in this way) to other verbs, and gradually lots its emphatic force until it became mandatory. Now many people leave out the "ne". This is called Jespersen's Cycle, and it's happened in plenty of other languages. The English word "not" itself, for example, comes from a contraction of "ne a wiht" ("wight" as in the archaic word for "being" or "thing"). So English speakers would say "ic ne seo" ("I ne see" in modern spelling), and then to make it emphatic they would say "ic ne seo naht" ("I ne see nought"), and then eventually the "not" became mandatory and the original "ne" dropped.

>>24559347
Oops, typo, "je ne mange pas" should be "je ne marche pas".

>>24559347
Some other neat examples for you - "nihil" (nothing) in Latin was originally "ne hilum" - "not a bit-of-flax". Non (no) was originally "ne oinom" - "not one".