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Subject: France needs to patch their language.
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I don't need no stinking signature!

English is one of the most distorted and seemingly random languages on the planet, but at least it maintains at least the minimum level of consistancy and ease, making it at least tolerable to use. But as it is right now French is the most broken mess any form of dictation can possibly be. The whole language is full or useless filler letters that only serve to confuse the user and distract from the flow, and their methods of pronounciation show almost no relation what their symbols indicate.

For instance:

'Oui' is used for the term 'wee' yet there is no 'w' symbol. WTF.

'Je ne' somehow means 'zher ner'

Nuit, plait, and countless other words clearly show a 't' symbol, yet it does not come into play when it should.

What the hell is up with the 'Q' making a 'K' sound, whoever came up with that should be fired.

'Quand', 'Comment' and 'Combien' all lack the 'g' symbol, yet it somehow comes into effect when used.

'Le' -seriously? Go back to 9gag.

I know some people restist change, fearing that making it easier to understand would shrink the skill gap, but this is 2012 and if french wants to survive competitively against the big dogs like english and chinese, it's going to need to adapt itself to a wider user base.

  • 12.10.2012 5:11 PM PDT

The black wind begins to blow... Okay... give me your best shot... If you're prepared for the void!

Patch 1.5

  • 12.10.2012 5:11 PM PDT

The human element always mucks things up.

We need a language that combines the sexiness of spanish with the anger of german.

  • 12.10.2012 5:12 PM PDT

Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

I think we should all just make up a new language, where every word is yelling at different pitches.

  • 12.10.2012 5:13 PM PDT

Relevant.

  • 12.10.2012 5:13 PM PDT

I take French, and it is a lot more structured than English. Also, don't contest the people who made the metric system. They'll shoot you.

  • 12.10.2012 5:13 PM PDT

Sometimes, I dream about cheese.


Posted by: Egerspurge
We need a language that combines the sexiness of spanish with the anger of german.



Spanman, the language of angry smex.

  • 12.10.2012 5:14 PM PDT

iPhone 4S 64GB Black.

Do you realise that English isn't the perfect language? Just because you were brought up around English, doesn't mean all the letters sound the same in other languages.

  • 12.10.2012 5:15 PM PDT
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For all questions with answers unknown to you, the proper procedure is to assume the answer is peanut butter.

While that may be true, I'm just going to pretend otherwise.

France just needs to go away. Seriously. What have the French ever done?

  • 12.10.2012 5:15 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

I personally think a lot of romance languages have problems if they're even closely related to Spanish or French.

I'm sticking to English for a lot of my talking.

[Edited on 12.10.2012 5:17 PM PST]

  • 12.10.2012 5:16 PM PDT

I have no difficulty with the French language. lrn2french.

  • 12.10.2012 5:17 PM PDT

Watch out. If I post in your thread, chances are it'll die. I've been cursed, and if I kill your thread, I'm sorry.

I learned english first, and french was really easy for me to learn. Its not that difficult.

  • 12.10.2012 5:17 PM PDT

Posted by: Billygoat456
I'll bring the tritium laser cutters if you bring the beer!

Funny story.

N'importe quoi.

  • 12.10.2012 5:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: SmD x MaYHeM x
France just needs to go away. Seriously. What have the French ever done?

They invented the Metric system, which in my opinion, is one of the best inventions in history. Imagine if we were still using Imperial units...

  • 12.10.2012 5:18 PM PDT
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I'll tell you what needs to go, genders given to inanimate objects. How useless.

  • 12.10.2012 5:19 PM PDT

You guys are getting trolled by what is obviously a silly joke, i mean look at what he had to say about 'le'

Goddamn the flood is easy.

  • 12.10.2012 5:19 PM PDT

MUSIC AND ART
http://i.imgur.com/0h2bO.png
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOjpG27LEQ&feature=player _embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yydcG9woWA&feature=relate d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZNwIxHiA1M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsnECVc_DE&feature=relate d
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CQuLZNoaW4

English has as many silly stuff making it hard to understand.

Lrn2french.

  • 12.10.2012 5:20 PM PDT

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  • 12.10.2012 5:20 PM PDT

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'Le' -seriously? Go back to 9gag.



I almost took you seriously OP.

  • 12.10.2012 5:21 PM PDT

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill

The Secret Society 95% of activity is me, I could use some help.

Funny. Learned L'Hospital's rule in Calculus today. Pronounced (low-p-tall)

  • 12.10.2012 5:21 PM PDT

I took Latin and from there I've learned most of the Romance laguages.

  • 12.10.2012 5:22 PM PDT


Posted by: The one God
You guys are getting trolled by what is obviously a silly joke, i mean look at what he had to say about 'le'

Goddamn the flood is easy.

Your mom is easy.

  • 12.10.2012 5:23 PM PDT

Life?
I have the internet and Doctor Who; i don't need a life.

0/10
seriously, wtf.

they pronounce their -blam!- differently to us.
is that seriously all you're going on about?

  • 12.10.2012 5:23 PM PDT

im a dumb, dont take me seriously prease.

off topic but isn't it funny that english is spoken by aliens in some movies naturally. This is explained by some that a intelligent species would come up with a similar language to ours. Our language really doesn't make much sense...

  • 12.10.2012 5:24 PM PDT

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