#the french word* well well well

[koheletgirl]

HELLO if you speak anything other than english would you please tell me in the tags what rice is called in that language??

#The Thing Is. #this obviously happens with other words btw. but i love rice she's everyone's best friend #so anyway the thing is. i can say rice in a few languages #(some of them i can actually speak and some of them. well doulingo loves teaching you how to say rice) #so in hebrew it's אורז which is pronounced ''orez'' #in dutch it's rijst. in french it's riz #do you see a pattern?????? #i love language. #🤎 #10k

[hedgehog-moss]

French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday

Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.

The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.

#genre hier darmanin qui dit qu'il faut sanctionner les gens au RSA et aujourd'hui le maire pour qui fraudeur = maghrébin... #also the far-right ppl who made that song lyric app got 40K€ of public funding from the ministry of culture #our government is 'questioning' public funding for the human rights league but not this #so yeah this is just 1 thing out of the avalanche of bullshit the government keeps unleashing these days #i could have made a post about the minister of the interior; a known rapist; saying #that french people are angry about the reform but ''they swallowed it'' #that was yesterday; this week is going well so far #cool thing that happened last week is that the film director who won the césar des lycéens award #made a speech in the presence of the minister of education in which he said #''it must be hard to be minister of education for a president whose words and actions reflect the opposite #of the values school is supposed to teach the youth: contempt rather than respect; dictating rather than dialoguing'' (etc) #also last week when macron went to notre-dame and of course forbade protests in the area #so protesters hopped on a boat and protested on the seine next to notre-dame #frpol

[mrs-gauche]

It's so funny to me how we all remember this iconic line mostly for its delivery, while German and French even try to avoid using the word, meanwhile English just gets straight to the point, like

German: .....the lust......

French: .....the desire......

English: SEX. I'm talking about SEX.

And while we're at it, do you think that line was also on his mind when he was smiling at that poor guy who was tied to Celene's bed? lol

"Ah yes, just like the good old days..."

You know, now that I think about it, Solas had no right to kinkshame the Inquisitor like that. lmaoo

#what happened in the recording booth probably: #GDL: *does the line* #Director: ''Well that was pretty good but could you just put a little more emphasis on that word?'' #GDL: ''But why-'' #Director: ''Just. do it.'' #solas #language comparison #audio #hearing Solas talk like that in French at the Orlesian court is something else lmao

[jhonny]

the fact that spy is able to copy any of his teammates perfectly, including their manner of speech, means that he is in fact perfectly capable of speaking without a french accent but just chooses not to, and every french person i have ever known is like that so hats off to valve for accuracy.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 spy #french people will crucify you for the most minor accent mishap but won’t even try to pronounce the h at the beginning of an english word. #well. parisians anyway. #rowan.txt

[icarusbetide]

washington's resting bitch face game so strong his countrymen treated him like a god and elected him unanimously for all sorts of shit.

#simplifying but i think washington had a huge temper so he decided to shut up. and it just worked out really well #so he went. i will continue this strategy forever. #it feels like we take that god image for granted? so it's skipped over in the telling a lot of the time because the story goes #this young man was very brash and fought in the french indian war and then general and btw people think he's a god now #everyone knows he will be elected unanimously everyone! #like when did that happen lmao #greatest pr: resting bitch face. few words. #talk about how much you wanna go farm #george washington #historical hamilton #amrev #anyone know exactly when that godly image took hold?

[nero-neptune]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.06 “The Body in Question”

“Be careful, my friend. You’re opening a portal to the past.”

#let's get existential! #northern exposure #northernexposureedit #noexedit #grandmastv #uservintage #userrobin #userbbelcher #rob morrow #janine turner #elaine miles #john cullum #myedit #i love that joel is finally admitting to himself that being in this town for so long is actually changing him and how he sees the world #as well as how the show depicts the ways joel's background (wrt being jewish) plays a role in how he views the world #also according to wikipedia this is actually 1 of 2 episodes related to passover (but i haven't gotten to season 5 yet!) #also i'm curious about how much of that newspaper has a legit story in there. or if it's just a bunch of random french words lol

[mishapen-dear]

i know too fucking much about qsmp badboyhalo.

#and also. not enough #that one big summary of his Deal was like . 1k words. #and it brushed over so much shit #like his trust issues and the vacation arc and his criminal background (on qsmp) and the way he was the first to take protecting the #eggs seriously and i dont even KNOW enough about his relationship with maxo and the french that is a big blindspot for me but bad and max #(and foolish?) og founders of the theory bros the first people who started questioning cucurucho and then the french his family the people #who keep proving to be on his side over and over and i love it when he hangs out with pierre and talks create #and when he chills with antoine and helps fix the big spinning ring #and his WEIRD warrior's bond with etoiles (bad always gets along with the protectors have you noticed that #forever was the second big egg protector and baghera took care of pomme from the start and cellbit threw himself to the feds to try to help #the island and etoiles took the weight of the code attacks from bad's shoulders to his own in entirety. he respects them all a lot and i am #chewing him to pieces) #and his relationship with baghera!!!! she can read him so so well and he fucking trusts her enough to be dapper's mom #he may have felt weird about it and was jealous and :c because tahts HIS dapper but #he didn't kill her about it #or really do anything to discourage it #and he noticed her tear streaks and her leg and got Worried about the federation 'fixing' her and #genuinely he was so so happy when he realized she was back he went !!! mode #look. LOOK at these fucking tags. look back at the post. i can Keep Talking. #my point remains i know too fucking much about qsmp badboyhalo #shit and i didn't even TALK about his weird bullshit with foolish #i need a giant corkboard

[evil-city]

This is from "Misteri buffi" (I think is cheerful mysteries but idk)

Translation: With a new rival! The ultra mysterious masked man

I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS HERE TOO!!!!

I have all 4 Cheerful Mysteries volumes on my 3DS but I didn't finish reading them all yet :"^] does he show up more?

#i only found a french translation on the hShop #thank God I'm fluent in french. so far it only benefited me with reading Cheerful Mysteries #as well as helping me understand sentences in Spanish and Italian since some words are spelled similarly enough #Zakariask #i love you so much you shitty little man <33

[frostedpuffs]

guys i. i caved

i watched the movie

#i. i have. no words #i literally spammed discord with my feelings but oh . oh i need to scream. like actually scream irl #like go outside and scream. loudly #text post #im actually very surprised with how far my french practice has come over the years #because i understood WAYYY more than i thought i would #so like. stilll a little annoying to hear ppl scream but also #I GET IT. I GET IT. BC I WAS SCREAMING TOO. #i can actually read/understand a lot of french very well apparently! #but when it comes to speaking it or writing it myself that part of my brain kind of shuts down #IT WAS NOT A BAD WATCH EXPERIENCE AT ALL

[b4kuch1n]

took a mock ielts test today

#bakuspeech #honestly can not estimate how well I did with written competencies at All they could give me a goose egg and I'd be like. harsh but fair #but the speaking test was SO funny. bc I had to sit there and pretend like I didn't learn english from using tumblr for a decade #and. well. from writing anime fics. and [redacted] fics #so yeah yesterday and today's been dedicated to lunar new year stuff and mock test prep #as in. trying to remember the things I needed to bring to the exam room. which I did forget at home btw. good thing I went two hours #earlier than I shouldve #taking one single formalized aptitude test like ah yeah . this is why I'm not in school no more #twelve years of french to beat language aptitude testing into my very bones and five years out its all already a big open beautiful void #how did I manage that C1. they were 100% taking pity on me #anyways. I think Im good to sleep now. just figured a thing out excited to see it take shape properly #alright have a good night lads. enjoy uhhh words I guess. nice shoelaces u got there

[parvuls]

au where bitty is french and jack is jack and it's still the enemies to lovers pipeline only stronger

@weneedtotalkaboutfic 😘

#@lau you're gonna fall in love with a french person and I will LAUGH #also important to note that bitty is bad in french in every universe #yes he's french yes he's bad at speaking his own language what about it #omgcp #zimbits #omgcheckplease #bitty will be condescending to jack because he's Quebecois and jack will literally sit there fuming #'my french is BETTER THAN YOURS' #bitty will say one super well phrased sentence next to jack and jack will be like 'bittle. it was a lucky word.' #text #prompts

[svtskneecaps]

my biological peer reviewer (sibling) called this theory “fun” and said i should send it, so here goes

my personal theory is the feds ((”federation”)) created the eggs because they decided the best way to enforce “you can never leave” was to give the people something they couldn’t lose, like in the post by tumblr user alexaloraetheris (no relation to the smp) where their friend who might be a deity had said,

"When you die you descend to the underworld with nothing to lose. To keep you, they give you something to lose. When you want to return, they will demand it back. That's why nobody ever leaves. The only way out is to never enter."

i’m thinkin that on egg D-Day, at the end of the countdown, the feds weren’t gonna give the eggs back. they were just gonna hide them forever, or do something else, anything else, just keep them away from their surrogate parents, because then the people would just be STUCK, because people could theoretically take their eggs and leave, but if the eggs are missing, gone without a trace, then the residents CAN’T LEAVE, because presumably the eggs are STILL THERE, SOMEWHERE, IN NEED OF HELP AND RESCUE, if only the residents could find them ON THE ISLAND. if they leave the island while the eggs are missing, they are abandoning these things that have become their children.

but then in came the brazilians. and shit went south. because see, the spenglish (spanish / english) streamers were INVITED, but the brazilians CRASHED; the feds didn’t INVITE THEM, they weren’t EXPECTING THEM, but they can’t let these guys leave either, so they PANIC, and they scramble to give the brazilians the same thing--something to lose. the new egg had a brazilian jersey, homie was TAILOR MADE for them to pack bond with. the feds didn’t have time to send out multiple eggs, it was all or nothing, so they picked something they could reasonably assume all five of them would find endearing because they don’t know shit about these guys--they had a week to observe the OG batch, but all they know about these newbies is the brazilian flag on their boat--and so they sent the little egg out to become THEIR THING, the thing they couldn’t afford to lose.

it leaves open why the eggs are cracked too, bc idk what’s going on there lol, either 1: the eggs cracked because they’re hatching and the feds picked that date bc they wanted to yoink the eggs before they got Too Powerful, or 2: the feds were the ones to crack the eggs as an excuse for why they vanished--returning the eggs untouched would open too many questions the feds don’t want them asking; this way, instead of being concerned specifically with “why were the eggs missing”, the residents presume they know the answer--the cracks.

but yea i’m just gonna add as an aside that personally i think cucurucho / osito bimbo / the white fucker is way more active again because the feds are still scrambling to keep up with the brazilians (which, again, the feds weren’t expecting), and the binary fuckwad came in to put the fear of god into the newbies--maybe so they didn’t get too focused on the morse code transmissions; iirc max was theorizing that both osito and binary were part of the federation ? and if so it does make sense that the binary entity went to fuck with cellbit immediately after cellbit was introduced to the conspiracies of the island, yknow, a warning shot. i think they want them to be focused on the eggs.

BUT THAT’S JUST A THEOr

#i'm spitballing into the void bc i'm losing my mind lol if you read this send me some luck thank you #qsmp #someone send me to a nice farm with plenty of space to run i have lived too long #can't wait until someone smarter than me cracks the code #data and network security tried to teach me cryptography but HOO BOY it didn't do shit to help me here #i popped some of the words into a brute force caesar cipher #and also a tool that could roughly check for substitution ciphers #and yeah didn't find shit so uh #im gonna leave it to the one who's an ARG master yknow i think he's got it handled #(i thought about using an online tool to translate this but then realized i Do Not trust translators i can't verify) #(like i've definitely used google translate on my french assignments but the thing is i speak enough french to verify that) #(duolingo spanish + english/french cognates doesn't leave me confident and im not asking my unconnected spanish speaking friend to check it) #((i refuse to admit to her face that i've sunk so deeply into this hell-)) #(like spanish is such a common language for english speakers to learn that i'm sure they've honed the eng/span trans pretty well BUT) #(i don't trust it lol and id just prefer not to put something on my blog that i can't verify) #(so apologies and uh translate at your own risk k love you byeee) #shut up vic

[onaperduamedee]

I am obsessed with the way Park Chan-wook used translation in Decision to leave:

Sore apologizing for her imperfect Korean that is in fact quite literary, if Hae-joon is to be believed; Sore needing to express herself in Mandarin when sharing deeply personal details and using a program to translate her words, the confessions given to Hae-joon through a mechanical and disembodied voice; the shortcomings of said programm when Hae-joon translates and misinterprets her words regarding his body; the translation (lies) he himself unconsciously weaves when he talks to others about Sore; Sore checking afterwards the meaning of Hae-joon's specific words and her delayed reaction in front of her phone; the translation she does of his goodbye to her; the crushing, insurmountable realisation about what has been lost in translation in order to understand Sore's feelings and choices.

#Decision to leave #Park Chan-wook #Remblai #Decision to leave spoilers #It reminded me of Portrait of a lady on fire in its focus on how important words are #How choosing the right words is paramount but how meaning also blooms in the gap left between the idea and its expression #I wish I knew Korean and Mandarin to be able to grasp all the subtleties of the dialogues #The subtitles conveyed the elements above well which isn't always a given #Moiraine's voice: exact verbiage! #Anyway this is a little bit of a festival for anyone with a passing interest in linguistics so for that only I recommend it highly #It's also a beautiful and complex film with intricate performances #And Tang Wei #But yeah words #I realised I wrote their names with the French transliteration here #Feels meta

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

my favourite iberian indigenous names have to be burrus and reburrus. they never fail to make me giggle everytime i come across them

#they were quite popular as well. like so popular roman authors tended to use burrus to talk about iberians in general #kinda like using juan to talk about hispanics or idk pierre for french people #for non-hispanics #burro means donkey #it also means stupid #and we use 'reburro' to say someone is extra stupid #also this proves burro the word comes from prerroman times which <3 #in my experience #almost all spanish words that don't have a clear origin and have a lot of 'rr' and other hard sounds are probably prerroman #(and most likely iberian tho it could be celtic) #arroyo and berrocal are two common examples as well #burro arroyo berrocal. you can see the similarities #also except burro they tend to be natural features and stuff which makes sense #an arroyo is a stream. a berrocal is a particular rock formation #this also proves at least for me the connection between ancient iberian languages as euskera #euskera is also characterized by a lot of hard sounds and if i didn't know them already #i'd think arroyo or berrocal were basque words

[fideidefenswhore]

His 'merciful inclination and princely heart' meant he was always ready to 'take pity and compassion on all offenders repentantly crying'. In the case of his daughter, since she was, 'frail, inconstant and easy to be persuaded,' he would be glad to remit some of his displeasure.

The King’s Pearl: Henry VIII & His Daughter Mary, Melita Thomas

#i don't totally agree with the author on all points but she does really use the evidence well to demonstrate #the sort of current of uneasiness that ran through this relationship #the line is always that she's 'easy to persuade' but it's a double edged sword #if she's easy to persuade then it necessitates that there's someone persuading her #and that they will be punished. and it's this period we see her supporters arrested and interrogated and dismissed from the privy council #and as she's speculated henry did not really that believe that #but he wanted to believe that. that she was solely acting on the instructions of others. manipulating her for that purpose #melita thomas #marians are very weird about this relationship tho i have noticed #either all of the above is obfuscated (...referring to her as frail inconstant etc is horrible for lack of better word #altho 'frail' is in keeping with the misogyny of the culture and how women were regarded. and honestly it's not that surprising if you're #familiar with sources beyond chapuys. the french ambassador believed he 'hated her thoroughly') #and she's his 'favorite' #or he's blamed for being 'abusive' for things that don't really qualify as abuse...? #like mary remaining unwed throughout her twenties #was more a matter of political-religious tension and separate parties unable to come to agreement #than any spite on his part towards her

[coquelicoq]

le robert de poche: bougnat n. m. fam. et vieilli Marchand de charbon (qui tenait souvent un café)

me: somebody who sells coal...and drinks a lot of coffee? someone who sells coal while holding coffee? why would this be a thing, france?

wordreference french-to-english dictionary: bougnat nm argot, vieilli (vendeur de charbon et de boissons) (historical) coalman and barkeeper n

me: ...why would this be a thing, france??

#i was like well surely french does not have a word for 'person who sells coal while drinking coffee'. #and i was right. it doesn't. (tenir has sooo many meanings u guys it's sooo hard to figure out which one is meant 😢) #but you know what french DOES have a word for? 'guy who sells coal out of his pub' #because that used to be a job you could have in france apparently!!!! #french #lecture du dico #my posts