haley.io
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Genius@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

French culture

lemmy.zip

message-square
85
fedilink
338

French culture

lemmy.zip

Genius@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
message-square
85
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    3 months ago

    At least the Belgian and Swiss Frenches have slightly less weird numbering. Though in France, you get to say “80.” “Leul, blaze it”

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 months ago

      We keep the memory alive of a 3000 year old numbering system (apparently some tribes counted in twenties, and that’s the only trace left of it).

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    21
    ·
    3 months ago

    French culture my ass.

    Paris is an overpriced amusement park where all the employee hate you.

    Give me Italy any day.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, if you only do touristy stuff you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s like saying NYC sucks when you’ve only visited Time Square.

    • Genius@lemmy.zipOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      3 months ago

      Well alright, but have you considered that Voltaire is really good?

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        That guy who made fun of French institutions?

        • Genius@lemmy.zipOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          3 months ago

          Yeah!

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 months ago

        See also: French rap

        • vatlark@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 months ago

          Not sure if you are poking fun at it but I like Bigflo & Oli dommage

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            3 months ago

            Not at all! I sincerely LOVE French rap! ❤️

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      3 months ago

      Fun fact: countries consist of more than one city.

      Additional information: there are cultural differences between different regions in the same country, even between different cities and towns in the same region! Imagine that!

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        3 months ago

        But US tourists spend two days each in London, Paris, Prague and Rome, and then they’ve seen all of Europe. Isn’t that how it works? Besides it’s not as if they’ve got extra vacation days anyway.

    • ant1guns444@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Removed by mod

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        3 months ago

        Louvre, Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame?

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          3 months ago

          And Montmartre, but that’s probably most of them (I live close to Montmartre).

        • ant1guns444@lemmy.cafe
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          3 months ago

          Removed by mod

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 months ago

    https://youtu.be/VNLrCWCv38Y this might change your mind about the French language…it sure showed me where it shines.

    Beautiful song, beautifully sung.

    • vatlark@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      Got any more?

      • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        They have 2 songs together as far as i’m aware. I just stumbled upon this one last week.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    3 months ago

    We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 months ago

      C’est la vie

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    3 months ago

    American culture is practically a turd in a box with a $99 price tag on it.

  • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    hon hon hon. tabarnac!!!

  • jellygoose@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 months ago

    Ta yeule estie de raisin

  • InfiniteHench@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    3 months ago
    • French language: Objectively one of the sexiest on the planet
    • Lemmy shitposter: High probability of clinical brain death
    • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 months ago

      Say 96 in French and then repeat that sentence.

    • atlas@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      i’m pretty positive spanish takes that cake. omelette du fromage just ain’t sexy

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    3 months ago

    Not pictured: French aircraft design

    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      3 months ago

      Like the Concorde?

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        3 months ago

        The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.

        If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        I was thinking their inter-war bomber designs, and their early attempts at fighters post WWII

        • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          The MD-450 Ouragan was a fairly good plane.

  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    Nope, pretty sure French politics should get a crying face (saying this as a French citizen)

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 months ago

      I think historical, and the seriousness of it (guillotines, etc)

  • NONE@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    As a Spanish speaker, I find it so ironic to see this meme in English…

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      3 months ago

      English is fucked up in large part due to being corrupted by the French cancer. If anything we are one of the most qualified to talk shit about them.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them

      • NONE@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        most of the letters

        Queue

        (and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)
        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          Mike and Nike are pronounced similarly

        • Adiemus@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          A better example might be “home” and “some”, where only one letter is different, but the pronounciation is completely different. There are many words like these. English doesn’t make sense at all.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          They are…it’s a regional thing

          See here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkg5nLOgxII

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          ·
          3 months ago

          (and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)

          Well “Mike” is a typical appreciation of the name Micheal of Hebrew origin that long predates the English language. “Nike” is Ancient Greek, which also predates the English Language. Nike is the name of the Greek god of victory. So neither one of those is English.

          • Rubanski@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 months ago

            It’s like how you pronounce Hercules and molecules the same way

            • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              3 months ago

              Hercules

              An Ancient Roman proper name derived from an Ancient Greek proper name Heracles, which is likely where we get our clues for modern pronunciation.

              molecules

              Thats a French word they built from a Latin base. Take it up with them on that one.

          • NONE@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            But why is pronounced “Nai-ki” and not “Ni-ke”? We here don’t give a fuck a say “Nike” like Mike.

            • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 months ago

              We here don’t give a fuck a say “Nike” like Mike.

              The single syllable “Nike” pronunciation was introducing in the late 1980s or early 1990s with the advertising campaign for “Nike Air” shoes. Sometimes pop culture name shortening sticks. Another example of this would be the brand Porsche has two syllables, but has been shortened by most to a single syllable name.

        • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          literally a french word

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        Oh. Yeah. Right. Sure. Let’s say that.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.

      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        3 months ago

        But the pronunciations are different word by word. French letter combos make the same sound even if they are not each pronounced the American away, which is nice as a French novice.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 months ago

    quaso

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 months ago

    French toast

    • tino@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 months ago

      French don’t know about French toasts.

      • Synapse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        3 months ago

        We know it, it’s called pain perdu.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          3 months ago

          You call it ‘lost bread’?

          • Mariemarion@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            12
            ·
            3 months ago

            Yup, it’s a way to use old bread instead of letting it go to waste.

          • Synapse@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 months ago

            It use to be a way to not waste stale bread. Nowdays, it’s mostly a fancy dish using freshly made brioche.

  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    3 months ago

    I once heard from a friend learning French that the way to say that you are in the process of doing something literally translated to ‘I am on the train to [doing the thing]’. Is that correct?

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      As a person learning French, I think it’s more closely related to “training” or “entrain.”

    • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      40
      ·
      3 months ago

      it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution “en train de [verbe]”, en train has the 15th century meaning of “in action”, “in movement”, this predates the invention of the railroad :)

      • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        Wait, woah, so the term ‘train’ is from the French word for ‘action’ or ‘motion’, essentially? That’s kind of a dub.

        • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          22
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          originally, as a noun, “le train” comes from the latin word trahere “to pull”. It’s then use to describe a convoy of animals. Later its meaning evolved into the “the going motion” (of a horse, a human).

          It’s currently in that sense in “arrière-train” to designate the back legs of a quadruped. “Aller de bon train” = to walk briskly, or in automotive, the “train avant” and “train arrière” are the front and rear axles.

          There are other expressions like “le train-train quotidien”, meaning the daily grind.

          edit: additional information to the etymology

    • Camille@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 months ago

      Native here, yep it is correct and idiomatic. “Je suis en train de [faire la chose]”

    • Genius@lemmy.zipOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      3 months ago

      I’m well on the way to writing that report, boss

      Our company is on the road to developing those features

      I’m on the path to forgiving you

      • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        3 months ago

        I’ve lost my train of thoughts

  • wanderwisley@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 months ago

    You could say I have to take a shit in French and it would sound smooth as hell. -Eddy Murphy.

    • samus12345@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 months ago

      • Akasazh@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        3 months ago

        According to French scientists, the best thing to wipe ones’ ass with is the neck of a well-downed gosling.

        https://pluckypubs.blogspot.com/2007/06/rabelais-ultimate-arse-wiper.html

        (not actually scientists but a character in 16th century writer Rabelais’ book.)

    • guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      3 months ago

      J’dois aller chier calisse

Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world

lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

…


2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

…


3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

…


4. No Porn/Explicit

Content


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

…


5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

…


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

…

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.5K users / day
  • 8.59K users / week
  • 14.5K users / month
  • 31K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 33.4K subscribers
  • 10.6K Posts
  • 188K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Striker@lemmy.world
  • Aer@lemmy.world
  • WiildFiire@lemmy.world
  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
  • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
  • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
  • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org