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    Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 22 days ago

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    Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 22 days ago
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    • Skunk@jlai.lu
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      French here, we say Paris.

      You’re welcome guys, call me anytime for more French pronunciation.

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        • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz
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          Is there a woosh community?

        • Skunk@jlai.lu
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          Yup that’s what I said 😎

          Without joking, yes the S is silent so if we try to think with English language accent it could be written Pah-ree. Pah without pronouncing the H, more like how you say papa.

          And RI is, well yeah, ree. But with a French R, the one that is difficult to master as this sound does not exist in English.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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            Than yo Skun

          • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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            The s being silent is one thing but I find English speakers mostly struggle with getting the vowels and combinations anywhere close, even here I read this “pah” and I’m like “no way even 1/10th of them get that A right”, or indeed the “ri”.

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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        this makes me wonder if deaf people who read the captions on TV understand accents/pronunciation or if they just smile-and-nod

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        I can confirm, we say Paris.

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      Ah, the city everyone in France hates

      Signed: Bordeaux

      • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Adding signature from Nantes

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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          It’ll be quicker to round up the cities that won’t sign… Paris. That’s it that’s the list.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        I thought it was the Parisians you hated rather than the city.

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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          The Parisians are mostly people from all over the country that came there to work though.

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      It’s actually pronounced Pah-Wraith

      • ...m...@ttrpg.network
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        …ye prophets, i want to smack vedek winn every time i see her f*cking face…

        #notmykai

      • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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        mon enfant

    • piskertariot@lemmy.world
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      I also feel that way when I properly pronounce Mon’rree-all

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        I feel dirty pronouncing De-twah

      • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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        Nawlins

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        Even that n is suspect. Surprise French silent letters be like

        Moh-reh-aal

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          This is more like it

          We don’t say the N or the T

          • Canadian

          Mor re al is how I would write it but yours is probably better for pronouncing

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          There are no rules for the names of places. Most places prefixed by “mont” will have a silent t, but I live near a place called Montrichard and the t must be pronounced

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          tbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph

          (adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…

          • vithigar@lemmy.ca
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            The way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.

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            I mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters.

            I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound.

            Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it

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              h and e are commonly silent in French.

      • bitMasque@lemmy.world
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        It’s more like mon-ray-ahl.

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        pro tip: make no one happy by pronouncing it “mount-reel”

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      When I’m speaking English I pronounce it Paris.

      Lorsque je parle français je le prononce Paris.

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      I try to roll my r’s.
      But it always comes out like a gutteral r instead, like I’m choking on it.

      Pa 💦gh💦 ee

      • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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        Why would you roll? French only has the gutteral r

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          Naw, I pronounce it like I’m Yiddish. Idky I just can’t get my tongue to do that.

          To listen to the difference in how québécois and Parisian pronounce 'r’s is kinda wild

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      Do you think Justin Bieber sprays his DNA all over the ladies when he’s in Paris, France?

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        This will always come into mind when I here pah-ree France lol.

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      *paw

    • Sidhean@lemmy.world
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      AND riposte GG noob get worse internet

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      Ai slop alert =/

      • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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        It isn’t AI and it took 3 seconds on google with the phrase ‘Cat in front of Eiffel Tower’ to discover that.

        These comments are exhausting. You’re making an accusation but you’re not bothering to follow it up with anything at all. It’s just a complete hunch that you throw out. How is this supposed to be helpful? If you want to accuse something of being AI, that’s fine, but at least have some sort of basis to it or check Google to see if this actually is AI. By making false claims you’re only making it EASIER for good AI to slip past.

        Stop it, please.

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          Hmm?

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