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0 pointswat100001mo ago0 comments

Gotta get it right or you'll order some wind instead of some wine. (Did that once, and that's how the difference finally stuck for me.)

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throwaway8943451mo ago

What did the server bring to your table? A fan?

wat10000OP1mo ago

They understood what I meant, and then the French folks I was with had a long discussion with me about how it's not the same sound.

throwaway8943451mo ago

Yeah, I've been there. Apparently my pronunciation of "Chretien" (Christian) was indecipherable, and the French people I was speaking with clarified it for me by saying, "you're saying cray-tee-uh(n), but it's pronounced cray-tee-uh(n)"

dolmen1mo ago

And note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin

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throwaway8943451mo ago

What did the server bring to your table? A fan?

wat10000OP1mo ago

They understood what I meant, and then the French folks I was with had a long discussion with me about how it's not the same sound.

throwaway8943451mo ago

dolmen1mo ago

And note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin

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