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theoptia · 7 months ago

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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: the night of the hunter.

#marguerite duras #the lover #quote #novel #french literature #lit #miscellanea #bloodborne duh.#m

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gayvampyr · 2 years ago

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multilingualism poll because im curious

& feel free to specify in the notes which ones!

edit: i meant to write *and, not “or”

#polls #languages #bilingual #i consider myself bilingual but i can understand 4-5 written languages #including english (duh) spanish italian portuguese and sometimes french #in the sense that they share a lot of roots and conjugations #and i’ve studied 4 #spanish french italian and swahili

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anghraine · 7 days ago

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It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

#anghraine babbles #deep blogging #linguistic stuff #saw a post that was very aggressively going on about how english is GERMANIC (true) and has germanic words in it too!!! (duh)#and the whole discussion ended up arguing that the existence of common germanic words means the many common latinate ones don't count #as 'true english' or whatever and also all languages have borrowings on the level of french-derived vocab in english (not true!)#and it's only lexical and the english grammar is still fundamentally what it was (not true at all actually though not mainly bc of french)#like. sorry that the existence of 'cat' in english implies to you that 'animal' is not a real english word!#don't know why the entirely true statement that 'english is fundamentally germanic' always seems to devolve into nativist bullshit #but damn does it ever.#people are fixated on the vastly oversimplified 'french derived = elitist prestige register from foreigners; germanic = common real speech'#in reality normal everyday english chatter constantly and necessarily includes plenty of french-derived words (often unrecognized)#like pantry! the longer any english document or speech goes without any french- or latin-based words #the more ridiculously and artificially childish it sounds #esp given that some /ultimately/ germanic words in english came into it not from old english but via medieval or anglo-french #often taken from old norse. so 'germanic' real talk from real folk vs dastardly french corruption can be even more complicated #than the obvious xenophobic nonsense motivating the whole anglish thing #even my guy (and known old english lover & french hater) jrr tolkien could only /minimize/ the french-based vocab in lotr #if he'd gotten rid of it altogether he'd sound like he was writing for four-year-olds #english #anglish hate blog #okay for the tags:#anghraine rants

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catsrightnow · 6 months ago

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crazy that indonesian isnt even top 29 help??? its 56(?)

IKR??? esp bcs Indonesia is like the fourth modt populated country in the world ,,, like obv mandarin and english n hindi wld be above it, then spanish n arabic bcs its got so many countries, but its wildddd its so low for native speakers. Even if u include non native speakers its only 11th :0

#lookin at the top 10 tho im.not suuuper surprised #english is 1 which makes sense. over a billion second language speakers #mandarin is 2 and it can get up there by native speakers alone #like literally the number of native soeakrrs os over 300 million more than the third one #hindi is 3 urdu is 10 and bengali is 7 #those are all spoken in India +which give them a huge boost just by native speakers (not to mention the other countries its just India has #A Lot kf people)#and then second languahe speakers are pretty high too #spanish duh #its thd go-to second languahe for any english speaker and I assume a lot kf other european language speakers #plus theres all of south america besides three countries #and EG #french is also duh its an official language in lime 30 countries #Arabic actually Kinda surprises me to be 6 only bcs the classification doesnt include dialects #and theres A Lot of dialects #OH WOW actually thatd entirely by second langauge speakers #it doesnt list ant native speakers sjnfe every1 learns their respective dialects first #b4 learnjng standard #thays less surprising then actually #since a lot of ppl wld learn MS arabic after already knowing theur own dialect #esp for like international business n stuff w/ other arabic speaking countries #and then lots kf ppl learn it as a second language #portugese at 8 ... its got PALOP and brazil so I get that yeah #and russian at 9 #honestly im just surprised its below portuguese and russian. esp russin tbh #also I didnt know urdu has sk few speakers ....#(“few” its 232 million LMAO)

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9kylian · 2 years ago

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#my head is empty #how can u blame kyks huh?#i’m surprised he’s not on his knees crying #and begging #like…….#duh #olivier giroud #french nt

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buddyhollyscurls · 6 days ago

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I'm getting........................ mostly a's this semester??????????????????

#i am genuinely shocked #i ........ didn't think i would #an a in creative lit DUH #an a in poetry #and an a in professional writing??????????????#i thought i was at most gonna get a B #an A????????????#i got a b in folk lit which is better than i thought too thought i was gonna get a c #wooo #i just need that c in french and we are GOOD #we're better than good actually

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mcneyhoney · 14 days ago

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startehr cawl

#said in a french accent duh #ooc

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mossistyping · 2 months ago

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I do still know how to flip crêpes as it turns out 😤

#I just needed a smaller pan because I have Weak Bones #Going to watch the race at friends' tomorrow so I'm gonna bring crêpes duh #And french salted caramel spread :)

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window-seatt · 5 months ago

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polyglot status ON

which other language should I learn?

#mastered my Arabic #got my French English and Spanish down bc duh it’s a must

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wavesoutbeingtossed · 5 months ago

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You’d think as an Olympics nerd I would remember that athletes walk in in alphabetical order of the host country’s language and yet I was still here wondering what South Africa, Albania and Germany were doing on the same float until my brain switched to French lmao

#you’d think as a French speaker this would have popped out immediately lmao #then I was like oh Afrique du sud albanie Allemagne duh #2024 olympics liveblog

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73647e · 2 years ago

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president of the todd anderson is french and speaks it club

#dead poets society #dead poets #dps #my posts #anderperry #todd anderson #his mom is french #his dad learned it #his parents met in France #duh #so duh he speaks French #they are frenchies

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ahalliance · 2 years ago

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i can understand why producers would choose to give tintin a ‘standard english’ accent (american for the animated series, british for the movie) but it’s such a missed opportunity to not give him a french belgian one tbh . honestly it’d be even cooler to have said belgian accent influenced by other accents as he travels . i can hear that brussels accent tinted by a SBE one it is literally in my mind as i write this

#this was prompted by the jumpscare /neu that is tintin’s sbe movie accent lmao #like. to be completely honest yeah i take one look at this guy and think #oh duh of course he’d have a sbe accent. like obviously. but NO! that is the coward’s way out /lh #also it is a sin to not make haddock aggressively scottish #glad the movie rectified that #jay rambles #i feel like tintin’s accent as he speaks english would like. flatten over time #if subjected to multiple different sources of spoken english #to a point where he wouldn’t be clocked as belgian anymore #until he whips out the french of course #the adventures of tintin

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koravelliumavast · 2 years ago

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If there are no haters of the bastardized French language that Americans name their towns than I am dead.

#this post is specifically about Dubuque Iowa #becuase it’s pronounced duh · byook and that’s dumb #now I don’t speak french but I don’t think that’s how the french would say it

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lire-casander · 2 years ago

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the only good thing of today is that the american guy who works for us has heard me speaking in english and has congratulated me for my good english

#then he's asked if i speak a third language #like boy #you so innocent #so naive #i speak a third language fluently #and then i can get food and directions and read the press in two more #currently learning two more #studied a semester of another language #and i can understand at least another language #namely:#spanish (native) english (duh) french (third language) arab and japanese (i wouldn't starve around there)#swedish and german (duolingo my beloved) italian (i can speak a little) and then Portuguese (because it's really similar to spanish)#have i bragged? oh yeah i have #am i embarrassed about it? not a single bit

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cressialado · 2 years ago

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what a day to read very homoerotic and heterosexual letters the beats sent each other

#except allen #he's gay and obnoxious as day come #one of those days where i think about what could've happened if i studied englit #like #fuck the french man #the day isn't finished if i don't question every miniscule of my life choices #a gay girl reads a couple wolfstar smooch smut and count herself a literature connaisseur #well i am duh #rant

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touchlikethesun · 2 years ago

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omg haha that’s so funny like that’s actually so fucking funny thank you so much for saying this like i love hearing stuff like that it just makes me feel so fucking good about myself 🙃

#i know that i have an accent like duh #i’ve tried to get rid of it but at the end of the day i’m very confident in my abilities to communicate #when i’m with my friends i know that i don’t sound like them but i’ve also had enough conversations to know #my accent does not inhibit (most) people from understanding me #i KNOW that i’m good at french 19/20 on mon bac du français kind of good at french #but whyyyyyy would youuuuuuu sayyyyyyy thatttttttt #like seriously fuck you #i checked their bio they’re a kid and almost certainly didn’t mean to upset me but #bro why why why would you say that #i hate tiktok #personal

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