• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.

      Randevu.

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        9 months ago

        Randevu

        interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

        in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

        just a funny sidenote :3

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        In French, words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”. “ou” (in la Métropole) is similar to the sound in English “do”/“too”/“sue”/“shoe” etc. while “u” is similar to Standard German long “ü”/“üh” like in “Lüge” but the German one is relatively reduced and isn’t quite as frontal/strained/constricted.

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        ‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french

        I think it could be spelled rendévou though

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        9 months ago

        I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.

        English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣

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        9 months ago

        E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.

        Rän-di-vü

        TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S

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      9 months ago

      Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.