ErkhyanThe English word “queue” is funny.
It’s just the French slang for dick,
but pronounced like the French slang for ass.
anubis2814@erkhyan Is that true or a joke, I never learned enough french slang when I was learning. Neither would surprise me.
@anubis2814 It’s both true and a joke.
In French, “queue” is a tail, but obviously people also often use it to refer to the other tail.
And it’s pronounced almost like the French “cul” (the L is silent).
@erkhyan Lol, I knew cul, but I never realized to was silent. Probably depends on the region.
@anubis2814 I’m not actually aware of any dialect that pronounces the L.
TofuTheSquirrel@erkhyan @anubis2814 french here 👋 definetely always silent in France.
Lyokolux@anubis2814 @erkhyan The "l" is always silent 😃
Both are true btw and I never realized it.
Sylvain MAILLER@erkhyan
The "l" is silent, but the French sound "u" (similar to the german ü) does not exist in English, and native English speakers usually have a hard time pronouncing this. So "queue" pronounced the English way clearly can't sound like "cul" in French !
@anubis2814
The "l" is silent, but the French sound "u" (similar to the german ü) does not exist in English, and native English speakers usually have a hard time pronouncing this. So "queue" pronounced the English way clearly can't sound like "cul" in French !
@anubis2814
@s_mailler The joke here is that an English-speaker pronouncing “queue” and an English-speaker trying to pronounce “cul” would sound very similar. See: how “déja vu” often gets pronounced “déjà view”. @anubis2814
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦@erkhyan The nuns1 who taught me French said «queue» meant "tail"; funnily enough they never mentioned dick.
(They probably drew straws to decide who taught us the French word for "seal".)
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1 And others.
Daniel DARDAILLER@erkhyan. it's almost like cul, pronounced ku, not kiou
Captain Jack SparrowI always forget how to spell it