@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?
my friend, if only you knew
It’s a very dangerous language to learn
Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.
The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.
Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.
“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you:
truly the language of love
this post pisses me off so much because like 75% of the French “facts” in it are wrong. @ ppl please sit down and let me explain to u a thing or two about proper French, and please pleasePLEASE for the love of god stop blindly believing Google Translate when there’s tons of better online EN/FR dictionaries for phrases (wordreference comes to mind but i’m sure there’s others)!
“coup de fou” means NOTHING. at all. say that to a French person and they’ll probably just look at u blankly.
in all my 24 years of life here in fucking France i have not heard or read “coup de foutre” ONCE. and i have heard and read a LOT of things. although i kiiiiind of see the idea behind it, since “foutre” is sorta old slang for cum, so it has some (very vague) merit. still wouldn’t recommend.
this is more minor but: it’s “LE chat”, not “LA chat”. the definite article “la” is used for grammatically feminine nouns (“le” for grammatically masculine nouns). now THIS gets funky, because the proper way to say “(female) cat” should then logically be “la chatte”… which NO ONE EVER (except like, old people, very small kids, and chaotic evil aligned folks) uses to describe female cats because “chatte” basically means pussy. don’t be that person and call female kitties “le chat, elle” instead! i pinky promise u ppl will GET IT, because otherwise you’d be saying pussy, and they know, and they know you know. it’s all good.
otherwise i’d tend to agree using a noun without articles can change its meaning, but. i don’t have sources or anything for that one, it’s just feeling, but i feel like the “everything is insulting if you remove the article” is actually more the exception that the rule? and is only ever really used when you’re directly addressing people anyway, like “hey [noun]”? citation needed tho. either way it can also be very cute, like if you call someone u love “chaton” (kitten) it Works, because HAVE YOU SEEN BABY CATS they are adorable!! hell yeah for kittens!!!
the “verge” thing (and anything i didn’t bother mentioning) is correct!
that’s all for me whew. enjoy ur improved knowledge of the French language while i go back to sleep
me normally: fuck capitalism.. it’s a rigged system that keeps us poor and subjugated and it isn’t fair… you shouldn’t need to work 3 jobs to afford basic necessities the people at the top couldn’t even spend that money in five lifetimes
me playing monopoly: sorry sweaty if you wanted to win you should have tried not being poor 🙂
this post kinda makes me laugh bc i remember when i played monopoly as a kid with my cousins we just had a system where we’d share the board about equally, and if one of us started having money problems the others just gave them surplus money so we could all keep playing as long as possible, #fuckyourcapitalism style
“drinking more water” won’t cure you, but water is still good for your body and necessary for survival
“sleeping on a regular schedule” won’t cure you, but regular sleep is a natural mood stabilizer and will only help you
“going out in nature” won’t cure you, but the fresh air and exercise can often help your body feel more energized and give you a distraction from the day to day suffering
“going for a run” won’t cure you, but even if you can’t run, walk, letting your blood flow through your body is a good thing
“doing yoga” won’t cure you, but it could help you learn new ways of healthy coping and finding some peace in a scary whirlwind of mental illness
all the neurotypical advice that we love to hate won’t cure you.
but it won’t hurt you either.
I see your point but the main reason a lot of us are so defensive about it is that NTs dont take our illness seriously, and act that we are just being lazy, and they suggest these ways to help to mean “its that easy, yet here you are doing nothing” Like, we know its good to drink water, etc, its just that NTs have no business trying to “fix” us and be condescending with us, so a lot of people became naturally defensive when presented with this type of advice Thats my opinion at least
^ this.
too often when an NT gives me that kind of advice and i go “hey, i’m aware this is good advice and i would actually love to be able to follow it, but here are genuine reasons why i can’t, could you help me find workarounds?”, they just… either ignore me from then on, or proceed to call me lazy and ask “why don’t you just do it”, entirely dismissing the reasons i gave why i can’t just do it.
it’s exhausting and isn’t helping in the slightest.
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Reblog it please to help others! (๑•̀ㅂ •́)و ✧
Be safe guys!
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