COLOURS ARE FUCKING COLOURS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, FRANCE?!
I know you’re not speaking English while complaining about irregular grammar in other languages, I just know.
My illogical language is better because I speak it.
Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.
English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.
Even in English, nouns have gender, even though the articles don’t show it.
Your point, she is not making sense.
Not really, even that has almost completely fallen out of use. Everything except people and anthropomorphized animals like pets are ‘it’; nobody’s going around calling ships and newspapers ‘she’ anymore except people holding on to extremely quaint historical oddity.
I don’t no watt your talking about.
Literally no natural language is perfectly regular
Ehm… this is super common
Ok but hear me out. What if colours just had one word instead of two?
It is the same word
Edit: i still understand being puzzled by this, but the thing is, learning a language partially forces you to learn how the native speakers think… i would even argue that is the final milestone on learning a language.
Spanish found a way to supress the subject from it’s sentences
Germans speak as if they were assembling a puzzle
Japanese looks like a programming language… pretty neat
Russian has two different plurals and the quantity that makes a word fall in the first one or the second one is “arbitrary”.
I know this looks like a gigantic mountain to climb, but i assure you that as you advance, things will progressively make more sense
spoiler
That does not apply to the numbers… it feels like a toddler forgot how to count and started making up shit. What really bothers me is not that but the amiguity… 4 20 sounds exactly as 80
It is not an ambiguity, it is a remaining from a popular way to count. Just as you may count per hundreds and 4 100 sounds like 400, and means it. But you may also count things by dozen (most likely for eggs…).
Yet you may use “octante” (beligum) or “huitante” (swiss) instead of “quatre-vingt”.
You are right… i never paid attention to it cause spanish does not have this until 1000
4 (cuatro), 100 (cien), 400 (cuatrocientos)
4, 1000 (mil), 4000 (cuatromil)
Thanks, this helps me
Oh I dont actually find it hard. I just like shitposting.
Bruh its like spanish with -a or -o suffixes…
In french you just add -e at the end (like brun/brune), in this case you have to add an h cause blance is ugly, so its blanche, and every word ending with a c is the same (sec/sèche for example). Pretty normal…
Next topic: When and when not to pronounce a consonant as schwa /ə/.
Spoiler: It depends
Oh yes. The good old vowel shift, and the many faces of e.
Don’t think! Memorize!
‘I am mechanic who plays a soccer’.
Yes, very cool France. Thank you.
The rules on colors in french are impossible to memorize I swear
thats why i hate languages. they have like 500 rules, and then break them half of the time and you just have to know when that is the case
French is ass
