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French culture

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french politics
have you seen french politics? like actually?
i know that when compared to the US it may as well be a socialist utopia but french politics are awful. france is one of the countries most responsible for imperialism and colonialism. france is one of the most systematically racist countries in europe, and that’s saying something!
- Really it’s more that French politicians are properly accountable to the people, who will protest and strike frequently. That’s what makes French politics great, not the leaders but the citizens.
  
  I don't know how much you know about France, and french politics specifically, but as a person born in France I want to tell you that you might have been mislead... From my point of view and with my knowledge, politics here is a shit show, basically the elite mock everyone, France is run by billionaires, happily oppressing the poor.
  
  No, politicians don't give a shit about people striking. And the biggest haters of strikes are the citizens who don't like their life and privileges to be disturbed by people striking for their rights.

Wait until you hear the bastard child of French, germanic and a bunch of other languages. You can have a word like "lead" and you don't even know how to pronounce it!
- though thoughts are tough.
  
  "Thogh thaughts are tuff," in a more blessèd timeline.
- "I love to read, I read an interesting book yesterday"
  Seriously, who came up with this shit 😭
  
  Imagine you are reading this aloud, you can't know how to pronounce the second "read" until you get to "yesterday". Schrödingers pronunciation.
  
  Clearly, the solution is to make your own writing system for English and then have noone use it so it just looks like weird gibberish to them
  "Y lov tu réd, y red an intarestiŋ buk tüdá."
- Uh, that is pronounced "lead". You're welcome.
  
  For those illiterates who need a clear example, "lead lead lead." Simple geography.

As a Spanish speaker, I find it so ironic to see this meme in English...
- English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them
  
  But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.
  
  French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.
  
  most of the letters
  Queue
  (and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren't pronounced similarly?)
  
  Oh. Yeah. Right. Sure. Let's say that.
- English is fucked up in large part due to being corrupted by the French cancer. If anything we are one of the most qualified to talk shit about them.

Not pictured: French aircraft design
- Like the Concorde?
  
  The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.
  If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.
  
  I was thinking their inter-war bomber designs, and their early attempts at fighters post WWII

- And Dishonored, Rayman, Another World...

Nope, pretty sure French politics should get a crying face (saying this as a French citizen)
- I think historical, and the seriousness of it (guillotines, etc)

Pssshh whatever, can't be mad at a language that contains pamplemousse
- Cramouille is the best french word
  
  Anticonstititionellement is my favorite.
- I prefer Pomplamoose instead - https://youtu.be/kTP246fnKAI

At least the Belgian and Swiss Frenches have slightly less weird numbering. Though in France, you get to say "80." "Leul, blaze it"
- We keep the memory alive of a 3000 year old numbering system (apparently some tribes counted in twenties, and that's the only trace left of it).

French toast
- French don't know about French toasts.
  
  We know it, it's called pain perdu.

We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn't get the joke, and here we are.
- C'est la vie

I once heard from a friend learning French that the way to say that you are in the process of doing something literally translated to 'I am on the train to [doing the thing]'. Is that correct?
- it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution "en train de [verbe]", en train has the 15th century meaning of "in action", "in movement", this predates the invention of the railroad :)
  
  Wait, woah, so the term 'train' is from the French word for 'action' or 'motion', essentially? That's kind of a dub.
- I'm well on the way to writing that report, boss
  Our company is on the road to developing those features
  I'm on the path to forgiving you
  
  I've lost my train of thoughts
- Native here, yep it is correct and idiomatic. "Je suis en train de [faire la chose]"
- As a person learning French, I think it's more closely related to "training" or "entrain."

American culture is practically a turd in a box with a $99 price tag on it.

Ta yeule estie de raisin

Abadakor !!!!

French language: Objectively one of the sexiest on the planet
Lemmy shitposter: High probability of clinical brain death
- Say 96 in French and then repeat that sentence.
- i'm pretty positive spanish takes that cake. omelette du fromage just ain't sexy

You could say I have to take a shit in French and it would sound smooth as hell. -Eddy Murphy.
- J'dois aller chier calisse
- According to French scientists, the best thing to wipe ones' ass with is the neck of a well-downed gosling.
  https://pluckypubs.blogspot.com/2007/06/rabelais-ultimate-arse-wiper.html
  (not actually scientists but a character in 16th century writer Rabelais' book.)

quaso

https://youtu.be/VNLrCWCv38Y this might change your mind about the French language...it sure showed me where it shines.
Beautiful song, beautifully sung.
- Got any more?
  
  They have 2 songs together as far as i'm aware. I just stumbled upon this one last week.

hon hon hon. tabarnac!!!

French culture my ass.
Paris is an overpriced amusement park where all the employee hate you.
Give me Italy any day.
- Fun fact: countries consist of more than one city.
  Additional information: there are cultural differences between different regions in the same country, even between different cities and towns in the same region! Imagine that!
  
  But US tourists spend two days each in London, Paris, Prague and Rome, and then they've seen all of Europe. Isn't that how it works? Besides it's not as if they've got extra vacation days anyway.
- Well alright, but have you considered that Voltaire is really good?
  
  That guy who made fun of French institutions?
  
  See also: French rap
- Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame?
- Reparle de paris encore une seule fois batard et j'enverrai ta tête tellement loin qu'elle aura le temps de faire tout le tour de la dinguerie géologique et culturelle qu'est la France avant de retomber dans le Limousin où ta tête finira ses jours paisiblement entourée de jolies vaches.
  
  I can make up nonsense words too.
- Yeah, if you only do touristy stuff you're gonna have a bad time. It's like saying NYC sucks when you've only visited Time Square.

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