For anyone who ever gets the wrong idea that I’m a skilled writer, please remember that one time I forgot the term ‘Juliet balcony’ and Googled ‘balcony that is too small to really be a balcony.’
i once forgot the word ‘firefighter’ in an exam and wrote ‘anti-fire worker’ instead
I love when the human brain resets.
My favorite was when I forgot the word “glasses” and used “seeing utensils” instead
SEEING UTENSILS.
Roommate’s favorite is a European staying in an American hotel who saw a mouse in his room and couldn’t remember the English word “mouse”. He resorted to, “You know Tom and Jerry? Jerry is here!”
I was trying to talk to a French friend and forgot the word for ‘to telephone’. I resorted to saying it in Kiswahili which (a) nobody else knows and (b) is ‘kupiga simu’. Nothing at all like the French. Which is ‘telephoner’…
The other day my brain REFUSED to give me the word “skirmish” and instead kept giving me “comic” instead, which makes zero sense. No clue how my brain got from A to B on that one.
I forgot the word ‘carpool’ last week. While trying to explain to someone I just met how I used to get to work. I blamed it on lack of coffee but I was so embarrassed
I forget the word “stove” and “oven” all the time. My brain likes to give me “fridge” and “bobbin” instead. Thanks, bro.
But thank goodness they did it, so people can stop fucking saying it.
THANK GOD!
If I have to see another person say “latinx”, I’m gonna lose my fucking mind.
this may just be a rumor – but I have heard of people replacing the o/a in gendered Spanish words with an i
example:
latina, latino, latini
which makes a hell of a lot more sense than “latinx”… because y’all know that in Spanish, “x” is pronounced like “h” and you’d just be saying “latin” with an accent
When someone says “not to mention”; they’re going to mention it next.
I think that means that the statement they’re supporting after the “not to mention” is already supported enough by what they said before the “not to mention”
Tbh the idea that German is an angry or ugly language is just French propoganda to divert attention away from the fact that French sounds exactly like when your dog is choking on some plastic wrapper he found somehow
for the most part german sounds exactly as it looks and their words make sense ie submarine’s logic: ‘boat that goes underwater? let’s call it underwaterboat’
french is a hell language that the french are elitist about and act prissy over even though like 50% of the letters that make up any given word don’t even get pronounced
Just to add, as a former opera singer I had the delight of finding that the spoken French I knew was of almost no use when it came to singing because they literally could not sing the way they speak it. We had a fluent French speaker in our year who was advised not to sing in French because learning all the new rules might fuck up her spoken French. French is fucked up.
Btw best language to sing in? Italian, hands down. Best language to speak, German hands down. Best for poetry though? Honestly English, because we have so many different words for the same fucking things, even if most of them are stolen, that means when you’re painting in English you have a bigger pallette.
French is pretty good for sounding fancy, I guess. If you like that sort of thing.
I literally speak French and even I know it’s condescending
The whole thing just comes from rich English snobs using French language and fashion to assert how much better they were than everyone
All you have to do to debunk “French is fancy and pretty” is listen to 20 seconds of Quebec French b/c Quebec French sounds like a mean duck doing a bad impression of a duck he doesn’t like.
That is the best description of Québécois French I’ve ever fucking heard.
I hate people who call German ugly.. you’re factually incorrect, German is cool, but okay, be dumb if you want
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