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WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 months ago

I wish I spoke Frulench

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I wish I spoke Frulench

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WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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    This reminded me of a dumb joke which used to circulate around our high-school:

    John goes to the corner store to grab a pack of cigarettes. Cashier places a pack on the counter, John takes a quick glance and notices “Smoking may cause impotence” on the pack, then says: “Y’know what… do you have any which just cause cancer?”

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      I have seen that IRL. People certainly chose the warning they preferred

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    English instructions ruined, must use French instructions! “Le grille!?” What the hell is that!?

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    Le grill? What the hell is that?!

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    Why do people think a language that sounds like 2012 rage comics is romantic?

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      The romantic languages are named after Rome, not romance

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        This makes me angry and I’m not sure why

        • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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          Love stories were a very popular genre in the Roman empire. So a book written in a romance language was probably a love story and the term became associated with love instead of Romans.

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            Be honest right now, are you Philomena Cunk?

            • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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              https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ah-romance-a-word-borne-to-english-on-the-breastplates-of-chivalry

              A Latin adverb Romanice, a derivative of Romanus, emerges with the meaning “in the vernacular,” alluding to the languages that had developed out of Gallo-Romance, namely Old French and Old Occitan. What is spoken Romanice, or “in the vernacular,” is decidedly not Latin, which is what was spoken in the church and in most formal writing.

              In Old French, the Latin Romanice is adapted as romans or romanz. The new word is a noun, and it refers not only to Old French itself but also to works composed in it. It’s the Middle Ages now, and the romans/romanz composed are often narratives written in verse and chronicling—what else?— the affections and adventures of gallant and honorable knights. Romans/romanz takes on a meaning referring specifically to metrical treatments of the love and times of the chivalrous, and the fate of the Modern English word romance is sealed: its close association with tales of love join it forever to love stories, both true and merely dreamt of.

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        Indirectly, romance comes from Rome as well

        https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/romance

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        My pasta is so romantic.

        • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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          Oui oui.

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    • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
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      tabarnac

  • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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    Oui oui hon hon

  • lazyViking@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    Why did this make f7u12 appear in my mind

    • WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      what now ?

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        Now what?

        • WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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          What is f7u12 ?

          • lazyViking@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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            Ah, it’s the old subReddit for ragecomics. F7u12 is fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu which was A common ending to those comics (one type at least)

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              Watching this have to be explained makes me feel old.

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                oy, I was around for rage comics, I just didn’t read them on reddit like a youngster !

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                  Vincent Adultman, is that you?

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              Ah, thank you, that makes sense!

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    The ink they used has also been found, by the state of California, to cause cancer when smoked.

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