Donyale Luna and Dorothy McGowan (?) on the set of 'Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?´ (1966).
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Loving the fact that there are like 7 of us at best on the QSMP hashtag who are French but exclusively post in English but as soon as we're with each other we turn full on French gremlin mode whenever q!/cc!Etoiles or q!/cc!Baghera are involved and I think it's beautiful
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Watching QSMP as a linguistics person is so fun.
Aside from everyone's language learning experiences, the main thing I find interesting about QSMP is watching how certain words fall into common knowledge.
When two or more speakers of different languages start talking, very often on QSMP, they will default to English. The English language acts as a common space for a lot of cross-linguistic communication on QSMP. But there are also non-English words that fall into that common space, such as 'fofoca', 'enigmas'*, and 'no mames'.
A fun consequence of them entering the common space is that the English creators don't really "leave" that common space. The English language is the common space, so they all just speak in the common space all the time. And thus we get 'fofoca', 'enigmas'*, and 'no mames' replacing their English alternatives among the English creators like Philza and FitMC.
FitMC has gone up to Phil claiming to have 'fofoca'. Phil says 'no mames' in normal speech. I myself have seen these phrases actively replace their English alternatives among the English speaking fans when they talk about QSMP.
And the best part is that there is potential for more. Obviously there's the barrier that the borrowed word has to be in very high frequency and have a meaning that others will also want to convey. This is often the case for linguistic borrowing. But hopefully, over time, we will see more non-English words enter the common space of QSMP.
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*While 'enigmas' is a word in English as well, the way it is used on QSMP uses the Portuguese meaning, which is different to the English meaning. English would use 'puzzles' or 'riddles' instead of 'enigmas'.
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on est une des langues officielles mais quand je check le tag qsmp y’a genre 4 francophones max
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Dans la mesure où vous vous engagez dans une relation amoureuse, à quel moment vous annoncez à votre partenaire qu'il est devenu une légende des Feux de l'Amour malgré lui sur Tumblr ?
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You can talk in French ? As a french I was thinking that there are not a lot of people who seem interested by french language !
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Certainly not as well as I used to, mais oui :) français est une langue belle ❤️ mais je parle un petit peau. I studied it for 2ish years and was the interpreter for my family when we took a pilgrimage to France. My issue when I was in France was that I sounded so convincing the natives just babbled away and I was like 🙃😶🥲 That and I kept trying to switch to Spanish for literally no reason lol. I definitely walked up to one Frenchman and said “Bonjour, je suis une américaine estupide, parlez-vous anglais?” because I desperately needed directions to the correct train station and had messed it up when I tried in French lol
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Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
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At Christmas I was gifted a Piplup toy, and to differentiate him from the one I already had I made him a little beret and now he's french.
OMG thank you for showing me!! i hope he has a good time studying plein air!
great work on the beret too!
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quand tu lis une réponse tellement bien écrite que tu t'en roulerais presque par terre tellement ça t'a tapé dans les feels
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Discussing Robespierre with my little bro be like:
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Comme j'ai pas eu le CAPES interne à rien du tout je me suis dit que j'allais faire du shopping pour me détendre : je voulais de quoi jardiner et rempoter mes plantes à l'arriver du printemps mais je n'ai rien trouvé de ce dont j'avais besoin je me suis dit que c'était pas grave et que j'allais acheter des livres parce qu'il y a des offres "2 achetés = 1 offert" dans toutes les librairies sauf que les livres repérés étaient en rupture de stock MAIS j'ai quand même trouvé un livre qui a l'air méga cool
Puis comme j'étais triste je suis allé m'acheter des pâtisseries et sur le chemin une madame à dit à sa copine madame que mon sac était trop beau et du coup ça fait quand même un peu plaisir
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