True. I have a cousin that was raised on the island… we have to spoon feedhim some mushy peas 😢
his firm belief was correct, if one replaces capable with incapable
Holy based. Peak Frenchness, it’s so ridiculous and rude and arrogant, that all I can have is respect for it.
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I’ll just post a section of a quote from one of my favourite German philosophers of all time, and honorary member of this sub, Arthur Schopenhauer:
*This wretched Romance jargon, this miserable mutilation of Latin words, this language, which ought to look with profound respect upon its older and far nobler sister, the Italian language, this language whose sole distinctive feature is the disgusting nasal sound—en, on, un—as well as the sobbing accent, so indescribably repugnant, on the last syllable, whereas all other languages have a long penultimate syllable, which produces such a delicate and calm effect, this language, in which there is no meter, but only rhyme, mostly in é or on […].*
So, in other words… “you should speak French, but also, you shouldn’t be able to learn French”.
Old but gold
Pierre as we know and don’t love him.
Thank you for underlining 90% of the text. I almost missed the important part.
Arrogant ? You mean clairvoyant.
Cambon you are my goat of the day
Bro already had to endure London weather, don’t you dare to ask him to learn english on top of that
Diplomacy, a subtle pursuit, requires a subtle medium, apt to convey nuance and equivocation. I have often wondered what paradise we would all be living in, had the Anglo-Saxons not insisted on foisting their rudimentary babble upon the affairs of the world.
And where exactly is the arrogance in that?
Oui
If this man could somehow be transported to present day Paris; if only for a minute, the heart attack he would instantly get would release more energy than 1000 Hiroshima bombing.
French dubbing is some of the cringiest shit I’ve heard in a minute
There’s a reason why no one plays burnout 3 with the French dubs
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Don’t worry guys, that’s just arrogance toward Britain. Nothing personal here. Just a casual exchange.
*”if you speak French but are Briton, you’re retardé. If you are English you should have been French as I won’t use your silly language even tho’ 43% of your dictionary is French.”* – Best French Diplomat in UK
French linguistic superiority complex? Plus ça change, mes amis. It might already have seemed prposterous at the beginning of the 20th century, but in the 18th century, most of Europe would have subscribed to the theory.
Under the Francophile king Frederick the Great, the Prussian Academy of Sciences (all French-speaking at the time) had an essay contest to answer the question “Qu’est-ce qui a fait de la langue Française la langue universelle del’Europe? / En quoi mérite-t-elle cette prérogative? / Peut-on présumer qu’elle la conserve?” [“What is it that makes French the universal European language? / How does it merit this prerogative? / Can it be assumed that Fremch will keep this prerogative?”] One of the respondents sharing the first prize was Antoine de Rivarol whose essay concluded “Sûre, sociale, raisonnable, ce n’est plus la Langue Française, c’est la Langue humaine” [‘Safe, social, reasonable, it is no longer the French language, it is the human language’].
Luckily, the Germans had some witty minds at that time, too (unfortunately they have died out now as it seems), such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, who made fun of the perceived Rivarolian rationality of the French language by mocking its “Qu’estcequec’estqueitüde / Wasistdaswasdasistwashaftigkeit” [‘Whatisthatwhatthatiswhatity’] demonstrated by the cumbersome Feench formulation “qu’est-ce que c’est que cela?” for “what is this?”
And thats why no one likes you.
What’s the book name ?
“French people raised in Britain tended to end up mentally regarded”
That’s not arrogant, that’s just science.
Just look over the Atlantic to see what the English creole does to the human mind.
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True. I have a cousin that was raised on the island… we have to spoon feedhim some mushy peas 😢
his firm belief was correct, if one replaces capable with incapable
Holy based. Peak Frenchness, it’s so ridiculous and rude and arrogant, that all I can have is respect for it.
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I’ll just post a section of a quote from one of my favourite German philosophers of all time, and honorary member of this sub, Arthur Schopenhauer:
*This wretched Romance jargon, this miserable mutilation of Latin words, this language, which ought to look with profound respect upon its older and far nobler sister, the Italian language, this language whose sole distinctive feature is the disgusting nasal sound—en, on, un—as well as the sobbing accent, so indescribably repugnant, on the last syllable, whereas all other languages have a long penultimate syllable, which produces such a delicate and calm effect, this language, in which there is no meter, but only rhyme, mostly in é or on […].*
So, in other words… “you should speak French, but also, you shouldn’t be able to learn French”.
Old but gold
Pierre as we know and don’t love him.
Thank you for underlining 90% of the text. I almost missed the important part.
Arrogant ? You mean clairvoyant.
Cambon you are my goat of the day
Bro already had to endure London weather, don’t you dare to ask him to learn english on top of that
Diplomacy, a subtle pursuit, requires a subtle medium, apt to convey nuance and equivocation. I have often wondered what paradise we would all be living in, had the Anglo-Saxons not insisted on foisting their rudimentary babble upon the affairs of the world.
And where exactly is the arrogance in that?
Oui
If this man could somehow be transported to present day Paris; if only for a minute, the heart attack he would instantly get would release more energy than 1000 Hiroshima bombing.
French dubbing is some of the cringiest shit I’ve heard in a minute
There’s a reason why no one plays burnout 3 with the French dubs
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Don’t worry guys, that’s just arrogance toward Britain. Nothing personal here. Just a casual exchange.
*”if you speak French but are Briton, you’re retardé. If you are English you should have been French as I won’t use your silly language even tho’ 43% of your dictionary is French.”* – Best French Diplomat in UK
French linguistic superiority complex? Plus ça change, mes amis. It might already have seemed prposterous at the beginning of the 20th century, but in the 18th century, most of Europe would have subscribed to the theory.
Under the Francophile king Frederick the Great, the Prussian Academy of Sciences (all French-speaking at the time) had an essay contest to answer the question “Qu’est-ce qui a fait de la langue Française la langue universelle del’Europe? / En quoi mérite-t-elle cette prérogative? / Peut-on présumer qu’elle la conserve?” [“What is it that makes French the universal European language? / How does it merit this prerogative? / Can it be assumed that Fremch will keep this prerogative?”] One of the respondents sharing the first prize was Antoine de Rivarol whose essay concluded “Sûre, sociale, raisonnable, ce n’est plus la Langue Française, c’est la Langue humaine” [‘Safe, social, reasonable, it is no longer the French language, it is the human language’].
Luckily, the Germans had some witty minds at that time, too (unfortunately they have died out now as it seems), such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, who made fun of the perceived Rivarolian rationality of the French language by mocking its “Qu’estcequec’estqueitüde / Wasistdaswasdasistwashaftigkeit” [‘Whatisthatwhatthatiswhatity’] demonstrated by the cumbersome Feench formulation “qu’est-ce que c’est que cela?” for “what is this?”
And thats why no one likes you.
What’s the book name ?
“French people raised in Britain tended to end up mentally regarded”
That’s not arrogant, that’s just science.
Just look over the Atlantic to see what the English creole does to the human mind.
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