Raise your hand if you've been personally victimized by the French language 🤚🤚🤚 https://wandering.shop/media/nKctu-Do2X3xg6WDzjU
@guerrillarain Spoken French has so many unpronounced consonants I'd probably wind up lying in the gutter in my own filth if I tried to live in France.
@KevinCarson1 Just let every word die in your mouth and your accent will be perfect, I swear.
@guerrillarain Yeah but I still won't know what anyone else is saying.
@guerrillarain lmao Jaques Chirac
@guerrillarain my teacher tip was "use vous with everybody and if people don't like it they'll just ask you to use tu". Better to be excessively formal than to offend someone.
@ardydo Mmmm, I always do the opposite bc I'm a very informal person lmaooooo
@guerrillarain i think as a german i should keep my mouth shut here 😂
..but 🤚
@guerrillarain Wait, God is "tu"? That seems a little desperate on God's part. "I'm not a regular God, I'm a cool God!"
I'm not a believer but it's more like a "god is something personnal, you have an intimate relation with him, he know everything you do and you trust him completely and blablabla so it's tu even if he have complete power over you and you're his creation" thing
(wait I'm a native speaker I'm not supposed to)
(btw most of these rules can be translated to : is the other person have a kind of power on you ?)
@guerrillarain (well, it's a mix between power and how much you know the person actually)
(native speaker too…)
(also I basically break theses rules by avoiding pronouns or hierarchy)
@guerrillarain Same with Dutch (my native language). I was surprised English did not have this. Although, how about "thou"?
@BartG95 Thou is very old English though.
@guerrillarain
If this is anything like in german, there is probably one more page just regarding social workers.
...maybe two.