Topic: I hate the French language
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #103,905
I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I hate the French language. I'm not racist but I think the world would really be a better place if all French speakers just stopped speaking French and learned a normal language. Nothing about this language remotely makes sense, or is even internally consistent. Why are there so many silent letters? Half the words have pronunciations which somewhat resemble their spelling, and the other half seems like French people just decided to add a bunch of letters so they can act like they're better than everyone else. The language seems like it's deliberately constructed to be as difficult to learn as possible. Why the hell do verbs have different conjugations for you, me, he/she, we, you(plural), and them? Even the English language doesn't have that many arbitrary conjugations.
I made an honest attempt to learn French, I really did, but the language is just filled with bullshit rules for grammar and everything else. Whichever way you look at it, it's almost as if French is constructed to be as difficult to learn as possible. For real, English isn't my first language but I learned it just fine; trying to learn French after that feels like bashing my head against the wall. This is somewhat irrelevant, but I've heard that some French speakers who speak some English like to pretend they don't speak it when you talk to them. Why do you have to make life difficult for everyone, I'm not going to make fun of you for speaking English poorly. That's not even mentioning how metropolitan French has a superiority complex over other variations of French, all neutral observers will agree that they are equally shit. Also I've heard that some French speakers tend to discriminate against people who speak a local dialect of French, as if one version of a language is better than all others. Sure, the same thing happens with English, but at least the English language doesn't suck.
I made an honest attempt to learn French, I really did, but the language is just filled with bullshit rules for grammar and everything else. Whichever way you look at it, it's almost as if French is constructed to be as difficult to learn as possible. For real, English isn't my first language but I learned it just fine; trying to learn French after that feels like bashing my head against the wall. This is somewhat irrelevant, but I've heard that some French speakers who speak some English like to pretend they don't speak it when you talk to them. Why do you have to make life difficult for everyone, I'm not going to make fun of you for speaking English poorly. That's not even mentioning how metropolitan French has a superiority complex over other variations of French, all neutral observers will agree that they are equally shit. Also I've heard that some French speakers tend to discriminate against people who speak a local dialect of French, as if one version of a language is better than all others. Sure, the same thing happens with English, but at least the English language doesn't suck.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,170,762
Which language is the most pleasant to the ear?
dw !p9hU6ckyqw joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,170,764
> Why are there so many silent letters? Half the words have pronunciations which somewhat resemble their spelling, and the other half seems like French people just decided to add a bunch of letters so they can act like they're better than everyone else.
what other language does this remind me of
what other language does this remind me of
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,170,767
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Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,170,772
@OPitiful, so, French is too complicated for you? Don't worry, many people are not smart enough to learn it.
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Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,170,966
@OP> Half the words have pronunciations which somewhat resemble their spelling, and the other half seems like French people just decided to add a bunch of letters so they can act like they're better than everyone else. The language seems like it's deliberately constructed to be as difficult to learn as possible.
That's why Europeans call France the Poland of the West.
boof joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,170,981
semblable, trop de genres