COLOURS ARE FUCKING COLOURS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, FRANCE?!
You guys have it easy. In my native tongue every verb changes depending on noun’s gender, tense, while nouns change depending on - I shit you not - how much cute it is.
I’m fascinated. Can I ask which language?
Sure, it’s Polish.
Example, verbs:
“I was” in Polish - byłem (male) byłam (female) byłom (neither, not really in use, but technically correct).
Example, nouns:
“A cat” - kot (male), kotka (female).
“Kitty” - kotek (male), koteczka (female).
Then depending on cuteness informal obligatory rule gradient is:
koteczek (male) koteczka (female),
kitek (too cute for gender),
kituś (much too cute for gender),
kituniek (cuteness, love and sugar overload, gender does not exists in the universe, you have seen the face of god and they are bliss).
Works for every verb, but there are grammar rules and shitton of exceptions in the gradient.
Sir the title is in English the most irregular language known to mankind
Literally no natural language is perfectly regular
Bruh its like spanish with -a or -o suffixes…
In french you just add -e at the end (like brun/brune), in this case you have to add an h cause blance is ugly, so its blanche, and every word ending with a c is the same (sec/sèche for example). Pretty normal…
Don’t think! Memorize!
That regular. This lesson is just written by someone who barely knows french.
The regular feminin form for adjectif ended in -c in the masculin form is to end either in -che [ʃ] or [k] .
Blan-c / blan-che Se-c / se-che Fran-c / fran-che
Ehm… this is super common
Ok but hear me out. What if colours just had one word instead of two?
It is the same word
Edit: i still understand being puzzled by this, but the thing is, learning a language partially forces you to learn how the native speakers think… i would even argue that is the final milestone on learning a language.
Spanish found a way to supress the subject from it’s sentences
Germans speak as if they were assembling a puzzle
Japanese looks like a programming language… pretty neat
Russian has two different plurals and the quantity that makes a word fall in the first one or the second one is “arbitrary”.
I know this looks like a gigantic mountain to climb, but i assure you that as you advance, things will progressively make more sense
spoiler
That does not apply to the numbers… it feels like a toddler forgot how to count and started making up shit. What really bothers me is not that but the amiguity… 4 20 sounds exactly as 80
Oh I dont actually find it hard. I just like shitposting.
Estonians found a way to communicate without sex, future, articles or prepositions. Oh, sounds like a super easy language to learn with fewer things in it, right? Fuck you, we have 14 cases so we could tell foreigners from native speakers by how they confuse genitive and partitive, two of the most basic cases. And then most cities, towns, villages you’d go to use illative (“into”) to say “I’m going to X”, but some will be allative (“onto”) and there’s no rule for it, so people from other parts of the country might not know it and it’ll sound super weird.
And I still find English to be the weird language. Just look at the different words written as “lead”. Why are they pronounced so differently?! Nothing is pronounced as written.
It is not an ambiguity, it is a remaining from a popular way to count. Just as you may count per hundreds and 4 100 sounds like 400, and means it. But you may also count things by dozen (most likely for eggs…).
Yet you may use “octante” (beligum) or “huitante” (swiss) instead of “quatre-vingt”.
You are right… i never paid attention to it cause spanish does not have this until 1000
4 (cuatro), 100 (cien), 400 (cuatrocientos)
4, 1000 (mil), 4000 (cuatromil)
Thanks, this helps me
French is ass
Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.
English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.
Even in English, nouns have gender, even though the articles don’t show it.
Your point, she is not making sense.
I don’t no watt your talking about.
Well yeah, but one of the big reasons for that is actually the French. See: The Norman Conquest.
Nope, the biggest problem is the vowel shift, but that is a complicated topic. Read “Why Q needs U” for details. Thanks to RobWords for that book recommendation!
They deserve each other.
Polish enters the room…
Znowu się zaczyna…
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
Oh yes. The good old vowel shift, and the many faces of e.
This is why Lojban is the best language.
Blanc i Blanca
French is not that special.
I think the point here is that the feminine form of blanc is blanche, ending in -che which is irregular. If it were regular it would be blance, but it’s not because blance sounds stupid.
Cut cut cut… WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ENGLISH !?
I concur
ow-ooh-uh-oh
The /u:/ ones are nearly all French words and to put gouda there is just wrong
Gouda belongs in the left column. Or, if you want to get close to the original Dutch, in the right one. But definitely not in the second one.
kinda, yeah… the ou in gouda is more like an au diphtong, almost as in out (in simplified english)
If it’s coming from french it’s definitely in the second column. I didn’t know anglophones pronounced it like that
The French have more than enough cheeses on their own.
Gouda is Dutch. Definitely. I’ve been there. I’ve bought the cheese there.
Yes it’s dutch, but the word Gouda in the English language could be coming from french, and the pronunciation in french these days is like the second column
Well the Anglo-Saxons should gave fought better at Hastings, then there wouldn’t be French words here. But I’m not sure it would be simpler.
It would still be a mixup. Starting from Celtic, then western Germanic (Angels and Saxons), Latin, northern Germanic (Scandinavians) already form a wild brew. French is only the latest major addition.
Languages have made-up rules by people trying to bring some order into the chaos that actual languages are. The only point of languages is to bring some point across. As long as the receiver understands what the sender was trying to say, it worked. No matter how “wrong” someone else might find it. All the crap about grammar and spelling is like >90% classism.
