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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I was going to high school in France when Saw 6 came out.

Everyone was calling it sausage - was pretty funny at the time.

Saw Six / saucisse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I love that for them. That's hilarious. It's like when I found out what Pajero means. Every time I see one driving around I call out 'wankah!'

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I told this to some French speaking friends when I first found out a few years ago and they were totally non-plussed. Seems like only native anglophones enjoy this fact.

Then again, in France younger people might use the English word "cool" despite the fact it sounds like the French for ass ("cul"). Probably used to it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool doesn't sound like cul, it's sounds like coule

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yeah you wouldn't say the L at the end of 'cul', right? Sometimes in English people don't make the L sound in 'cool' if they are trying to be particularly cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Ye, it's pronounced like Q. That's why toilet paper is often shortened to pt (papier toilette) but also to pq (papier cul)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

The real reason why Mistral Le Chat was launched

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That Phil Fish? Where's Fez 2!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Fez is soooo good!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he said fuck it, took his ball and went home on that one a while ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Yeah it's 15 years past time to expect anything else from him. Just surprised to see his name pop up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's nothing new. They are used to the confusing nature of English, as us anglophones have been yelling "seal egg!" (phoque oeuf) for years, and seals are mammals, yo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Mammals have eggs. They are just usually very small. Except for platypus.

The only requirement for being a mammal is nipples. Or, more specifically, mammary glands.

Fur and three inner-ear bones and a broad neocortex are important, too...but not as big as nipples.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I have nipples Greg; can you milk me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Ok, but then what about smurfs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Chat, is this fart real?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

*Purring

*Licks butt

*farts

*looks at you blamingly

Meow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thread : 3h ago.
Accourt : 2 days.

You were waiting for your moment, weren't you ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

purrrrrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

francophones pronounce "chat" like anglophones: \tʃat\

chat

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

So it's just Zoomer-speak ("Chat, I farted") instead?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The funny part is we decided to pronounce "chat" in perfect english, but the remaining letters will stay french no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So it's more like "female cat, I farted"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

not really, because chatte doesn’t have the t in front of the ch sound, so it’s \ʃat\ (shat) instead of \tʃat\ (chat)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What part indicates that it means female cat? You can use chatte for that but it also means pussy so probably don’t.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the 58th time I've seen this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is the 978th time I've seen a comment like this and I still don't understand the point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The point is people like new content and if OP just keeps reposting over and over it's annoying. Hence a very slight pushback. If we wanna get into this meta criticism stuff, I've seen the pushback to pushback comments like yours here 928473927342 times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So downvote and move on. You're not gonna stop it. Or keep being a nonce. Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But you? You're different. You're going to stop people from expressing annoyance at the same shit posted over and over. Yep.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a non native English speaker and I've never heard it pronounced like the letters would be pronounced like in my native language. Always like English (with an accent). Do french speakers do that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They do. Otherwise it would sound like Chat JPT. So they say Chat J'ai Pété

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There's a company that unironically calls itself "Mendix".