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Is English just badly pronounced French? - PixLab - 10-12-2024
Nice historic
RE: Is English just badly pronounced French? - denzjos - 10-12-2024
Nice view on the French influence on the Enlish language.
A few French words we use in our West Flemish language (Belgium) (West Flemish / French / English)
pertank / pourtant / nevertheless
forsette of ferkette / fourchette / fork
assiete/taljore / assiette/tailloir /plate
couvers / couverts / cutlery
freings / freins / brakes
vèlo / vélo / bike
fateure / voiture (d'enfant) / stroller
facteur (fakteur) / facteur / postman
cha(m)brang / chambranle / door frame
A whole lot of French words we use in West Flemish (West Flemish / Dutch)
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Franse_woorden_en_uitdrukkingen_in_de_Nederlandse_taal
RE: Is English just badly pronounced French? - Krikor - 10-12-2024
French is also very present in the Portuguese language.
The influence of some French words on the Portuguese language goes almost unnoticed, as is the case of Cacetete:
It comes from the verb Casser and the noun Tête. (to break one's head)
I'm not sure what the translation would be in French. I did some research and the closest thing was "Matraque".
In English, I think the translation would be "Truncheon".
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It's hard to find all the French words that were absorbed by the Portuguese language, but you can see some of them on this website:https://www.berlitz.com/pt-br/blog/palavras-expressoes-frances-usadas-brasil
RE: Is English just badly pronounced French? - PixLab - 10-12-2024
(10-12-2024, 10:50 AM)Krikor Wrote: French is also very present in the Portuguese language.
The influence of some French words on the Portuguese language goes almost unnoticed, as is the case of Cacetete:
It comes from the verb Casser and the noun Tête. (to break one's head)
I'm not sure what the translation would be in French. I did some research and the closest thing was "Matraque".
indeed, Matraque" is in French, and it's the right spelling
RE: Is English just badly pronounced French? - Ofnuts - 10-13-2024
I was quite surprised to find that Russian has borrowed a lot of technical words from the French, and not from the English, possibly because during the cold war it was more politically correct to borrow fro a relatively friendly nation.
And I understand that Spanish stole our "ordinateur" (just hastily repainted as "ordinatore").