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jayrodtheoldbod ,

So are they aware that they’re trying to shame a joke account that’s already doing a bit?

Do they think they’re winning? Are they in on the bit? What sort of cataclysm has to happen for Twitter people to wake up and go “oh my god, I WAS THE ASSHOLE THIS ENTIRE TIME, WHAT AM I DOING HERE”?

I’m glad I get to wipe my ass with what’s left of them without having to touch their vile community, I’ll call that a win.

eran_morad ,

https://s3.amazonaws.com/blogs.comedycentral.com-production/wp-content/uploads/sites/58/2014/01/0611-mongorians.jpg

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Admittedly the way French is pronounced is pretty dumb

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

Rendezvous? That’s French for Fuckin’!

SpiceDealer ,
@SpiceDealer@lemmy.world avatar

I believe the proper insult is “Mongoloid” thank you very much!

Chadus_Maximus ,

Monolingoloid

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Why was “fuck” censored? It doesn’t hurt anything. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK! See?

kazakhspy ,

How would you like to go to the school councelor?

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

How would you like to suck my balls?

Kedly ,

The FUCK you say to me?

lugal ,

They called you a f*cking bitch

Kedly ,

Pretty sure its pronounced mongolian

lugal ,

Mong*lian

JasonDJ ,

Really should have censored the M word.

Only a monolingual can call another monolingual “monolingual”.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I know american sign language and english. Am I monolingual?

Wait…how do we count languages? Do programming languages count as a second language?

Gabu ,

Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja

Starburn ,

Was not expecting to see a Tim Minchin reference today.

Wilzax ,

It should be spelled “Rondevu”

INHALE_VEGETABLES ,

But pronounced the other way 👍

Aermis ,

Rondayvoo

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

“Mongoloid? Who you callin’ a mongoloid?!”

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I mean, it’s pronounced like it’s spelled except for the Z.

dQw4w9WgXcQ ,

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

Randevu.

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

How about Randaevoo ?

herrwoland ,
@herrwoland@lemmy.world avatar

How about randeuwu?

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

Now even that sounds correct.

Just how many different pronunciations doe this word have?

aidan ,

Rondevu

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

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 🤣

rivvvver ,
@rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Randevu

interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

just a funny sidenote :3

raspberriesareyummy ,

Türk dilini sevmeye sebeplerin biri :)

trolololol ,

Oh they are so smart, just like I don’t know, most countries in the world that don’t prefer imperial units and imperial era spelling

(The sarcasm is not directed to turkish though 😁)

Sludgeyy ,

E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.

Rän-di-vü

TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S

tkc ,
@tkc@feddit.uk avatar

Its not pronounced randevou though, more like ron-day-voo

current , (edited )

In French, words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”. “ou” (in la Métropole) is similar to the sound in English “do”/“too”/“sue”/“shoe” etc. while “u” is similar to Standard German long “ü”/“üh” like in “Lüge” but the German one is relatively reduced and isn’t quite as frontal/strained/constricted.

onion ,

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

I think it could be spelled rendévou though

pancakes ,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

But sometimes words in English have silent Zs like in the word “rendezvous”.

MrBusiness ,

Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.

Ascend910 ,

They say being bilingual is only impressive if your first language is English. Since you are expected to know English anyways. Is it true?

andy_wijaya_med ,
@andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world avatar

Bilinguals aren’t impressive at all. I think most people are bilinguals. Apparently, according to Journal of Neurolinguistics, we have more bilinguals (43 percent of the world population) rather than monolinguals (40 percent).

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

There are trilingual regions in my country. And one neighbouring country is mostly trilingual too(2 official languages + 1 foreign)

current , (edited )

Well nobody can objectively force something to impress you or not impress you. But most people speak more than one language natively or on a regular basis, hell just short of 2 billion people (1/4 the world’s population) alone are from the Indian subcontinent region, and there the high variation/diversity of languages throughout the region make speaking 3-4 languages well the norm.

Similar story with Indonesia/Papua New Guinea. And most people in Central Asia and many European parts of the former USSR speak Russian as a 2nd language (nearly all Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and most Baltic people speak Russian to a high fluency, while also often speaking a 2nd and sometimes 3rd native language).

Then you consider language in European countries like the Netherlands (Dutch/English), Belgium (French/Dutch/English), Sweden (Swedish/English), Finland (Finnish/Swedish), Denmark & Norway (Denmark or Norwegian / some obscure highly derived dialect that’s different enough from the standard and common languages to be counted), Spain (Castillian/some other Spanish language), Italy (Standard Italian/some other Italian language). I’d say at least a third of Europeans speak more than one language natively and two thirds can speak more than one language well at all.

Despite being a massive continent, one thing that can be said about almost all of the socities there is that most of them are polylingual. Probably less so in Arabic-speaking majority countries.

Really, monolingualism is only the norm for anglo countries – especially the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand. Not so much in like half of Canada. I think it could be said that monolingualism is the norm in most of China too, but I’m not so sure about that. AFAIK it’s pretty mixed in Latin America but overall a majority of the people there speak only Spanish or Portuguese, save for places like Peru & Uruguay.

kilgore_trout ,

When someone asks me which languages I speak, I say Italian.

“…and?” “Well, English of course”

“…and?” “…and that’s it”, I’d admit embarassed.

Among young educated people in most of Europe it is common to speak at least two languages beside your native one.

MrsDoyle ,

I met a couple in Vanuatu - one of the world’s most language dense nations - whose mother tongues were mutually unintelligible, so they communicated using the country’s official language, Bislama. A lot of bilingual people don’t speak English. Plenty of Eastern Europeans don’t speak English (unpopular during communist rule) but speak say German or Russian as well as Serbocroatian or whatever.

therealjcdenton ,

As long as you speak the language most used in your country and English then you’re fine

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

English people: Holy shit, I’m doubly qualified to go out and explore the world

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Or russian before 2013.

hglman ,

genocide noises

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Windows, planes, tea, door knobs, underpants. Putin will kill all russians untill all die by any means, even starting war.

wieson ,

Was at the airport in Buenos Aires, English didn’t help me. Luckily I had learned a handful of useful phrases in Spanish.

trolololol ,

They do speak Benjamin Franklin everywhere though.

UmeU ,

The thing about Mongolians is that their barbecue is not the traditional Korean barbecue.

BilboBargains ,

Poor *anglophones

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

of course there’s a word for that

Venator ,

What the fuck did you just call me

Guntrigger ,

They called you Angolan

FlihpFlorp ,

Don’t dis those guys they’re adorable

FooBarrington ,

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

tourist ,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

kunoese nuts

Klear ,

Lmao gottem

v4ld1z ,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

We really need to finish this game. So many little gems spread across the way

seliaste ,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It sounds like something Encyclopedia could say

Taniwha420 ,

In Viking’s defense: of all the Romance languages French is the most like Latin being spoken and written by a drunk hick with no formal education.

GeoGio7 ,

Being racist to the Gauls I see

Taniwha420 ,

Actually, I blame the Franks.

SuddenDownpour ,

How could you say something so controversial yet so true?

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I recently saw a tiktok (therefore I’m an expert) that showed that Old French was pronounced pretty much exactly how it was spelled.

Every language simplifies it’s pronunciation over time, but usually they alter the spelling when they do, but French just said “miss me with that shit, dog” and decided just to change the rules about pronunciation instead

The_Lopen ,

I mean, I Heard that French monks were paid by the letter scribed, rather than the word, so they just put extra letters into everything using made up rules about spelling.

Taniwha420 ,

Except all those apostrophes are like whole Latin phrases that the French just ate!

trolololol ,

Probably yes, but the rules are simple enough today that you don’t need a PhD to explain though thought, or tie vs tier, or… wait for it… live vs live, or record vs record, read vs read.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Consistent and simple aren’t the same thing.

That being said, English is neither of those things, so it’s a bad comparison to make 🤣

Cryophilia ,

Yeah that was my first thought. French pronunciation is fucking ridiculous, this isn’t the epic burn you think it is.

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