zlatiahOct 19

"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym

https://lemmy.world/post/37578315

"United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym - Lemmy.World

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Show threadWereCat
So “Etats” is “State”… just written backwards?
Oct 20 at 3:54amWeb
Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Oct 20
Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français fonctionne. Désolé pas désolé
Show threadWereCatOct 20
What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious statement!
Show threadeskimofryOct 20

ah so you have discovered in your comment how french functions.

what’s Desole?

Show threadKumaLumaJumaOct 20
Sorry… it says sorry not sorry 😅😅
Show threadeskimofryOct 20
is the rest of my translation correct?
Show threadwiesonOct 20

No, but close. Comment means how.

So you have discovered how french functions.

Show threadeskimofryOct 20

comment means how

damn should have guessed

Show threadKumaLumaJumaOct 20
Not too bad overall if you don’t know any French though!
Show threadeskimofryOct 20
no i learnt french in freshman year college… 15 years ago
Show threadKumaLumaJumaOct 20
It quickly gets dissolved into the abyss of the mind, I get that! I lived in Japan for 4 years and can only remember a few useless bits.
Show threadeskimofryNov 11
the occasional consumption of anime with subs helps me pick up words here and there. But I can tell its tough to learn
Show threadRandelungOct 21
It’s when you remove the bottom of a shoe.
Show threadeskimofryNov 11
ok i stepped onto that one myself.
Show threadSomething Burger 🍔Oct 20
“États” is “States” ☝️🤓
Show threadpedzOct 21

If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.

Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.

It also happened with circumflex.

Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.

Here’s a whole video about exactly this.

How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH (3 clever tricks)

YouTube
Show threadbillwashereOct 21
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