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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

AND riposte GG noob get worse internet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would you roll? French only has the gutteral r

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, the city everyone in France hates

Signed: Bordeaux

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought it was the Parisians you hated rather than the city.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Parisians are mostly people from all over the country that came there to work though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Adding signature from Nantes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It'll be quicker to round up the cities that won't sign... Paris. That's it that's the list.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When I'm speaking English I pronounce it Paris.

Lorsque je parle français je le prononce Paris.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

French here, we say Paris.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I can confirm, we say Paris.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

this makes me wonder if deaf people who read the captions on TV understand accents/pronunciation or if they just smile-and-nod

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's actually pronounced Pah-Wraith

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

...ye prophets, i want to smack vedek winn every time i see her f*cking face...

#notmykai

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I also feel that way when I properly pronounce Mon'rree-all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's more like mon-ray-ahl.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Even that n is suspect. Surprise French silent letters be like

Moh-reh-aal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

h and e are commonly silent in French.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The way the quizzical "huh" is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don't know if I'd call that an English word though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is more like it

We don’t say the N or the T

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I feel dirty pronouncing De-twah

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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