Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:23:39 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] Is English just badly pronounced French? References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:23:39 +0000 Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-5q42oAEYEEug+9Q6fnjMoeGfmSkqlcQESLOci8sXiQDXpSewPeFJgTF1xq0dQnJX4edLcmfLO2zlWTf!zmwRShJwgXwDq5ilBNXDm/fTIvoiqSdFQjDZf+u/sa9LMuL2jKzRzzLXk2Yqobg049cEE9QuRVlX X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2692 X-Original-Lines: 33 On Mar 30, 2024 at 10:03:50 PM PDT, "Your Name" wrote: > On 2024-03-31 03:48:30 +0000, suzeeq said: >> On 3/30/2024 7:28 PM, Rhino wrote: >>> >>> I apologize in advance to Americans who are inevitably aggrieved by all >>> things French just on principle but this video actually makes a pretty >>> good case for saying that English is badly-pronounced French to a large >>> extent. >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q [18 minutes] >>> >>> When he explains all the English words that are borrowed from French >>> with only slight spelling and pronunciation changes, you may well be >>> persuaded by his argument. >> >> I wondered why the Brits call cookies 'biscuits'. Then I realized it >> comes from the French word for cookies 'bicotte'. They also call >> eggplants 'aubergines' and zucchini 'corgettes'. There's probably >> dozens of other words I can't recall now. > > The English language originates from a melding of many sources with > words being 'borrowed' from other languages, including French, German, > Gaelic, Celtic, etc. Some words have altered over time, but some > words (e.g. rendezvous) have stayed the same as the original. > > "American English" is a sub-version that has its own unique spellings > and meanings for words. Partly because (despite hating the British > rule) they have stubbornly stuck to out-dated versions of words, as > well as out-dated measurement systems There are the countries that use the metric system and then there are the countries that have put men on the moon.