"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

Lemmy

So “Etats” is “State”… just written backwards?
Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français fonctionne. Désolé pas désolé

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

what’s Desole?

Sorry… it says sorry not sorry 😅😅
is the rest of my translation correct?

No, but close. Comment means how.

So you have discovered how french functions.

comment means how

damn should have guessed

Not too bad overall if you don’t know any French though!
no i learnt french in freshman year college… 15 years ago
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.
the occasional consumption of anime with subs helps me pick up words here and there. But I can tell its tough to learn