What’s even stranger in French is we have adjective like “aqueux”
French is ass (so is english, but less)
French is when people speak sloppy Latin uncorrected for 1500 years
To be precise, it’s when Celts speak sloppy Latin. Even the silly way they say 80 as 4x20 comes from the Gauls.
Know what ? Yeah that’s the best description I’ve seen so far. So much for civilizing the Gaul
That one damn remaining village…
Eau…I see.
I wonder when French took the wrong path, because it seems unexplainable to me how we end up from Latin’s “aqua” to French’s “eau”
here is a whole video on that exact topic
Aqua ➡️ eau is one of the explained examples 😁
Thank you!
I wonder when French took the wrong path,
When did Caesar invade Transalpine Gaul?
One plausible etymology is:
aqua > agua > egua > ewa > ewe > eawe > eaw > eau > o
So first the k sound changed to a g, then the initial a became an e, which lengthened to a diphthong, the final sound disappeared, the new final sound turned from a consonant into a vowel (like an oo) and the resulting triphthong reduced to a monophthong.
The elision of medial g is pretty surprising to me though.
Are you sure that the Q is supposed to be read like a K? It does not seem to be the case in other neo-latin languages such as Italian and IIRC Spanish
Edit: i searched and it seems that the sound of Q could’ve been /kʷ/ which makes sense
i am not a latin expert– i barelly know it in fact, btw
Yes, Latin qu was pronounced /kʷ/, which became straight /kw/ in English. I don’t know which it was in Old French. Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/
Same in German
Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
I can confirm this as native speaker :3
theres also un oeil ( 1 eye) vs les yeux (2 eyes) like wtf. or my favorite: poisson for fish. Fish is poisoned !
Germans are a lot worse by these standards ! “Poison” is “gift”
Just don’t piscine the pool.
Edit: how can I forget good ol’ toilet water! Eau de toilette
This is pretty much my experience attempting to learn french. I can’t pronounce it worth a damn either.
Bout ready to toss it out, say fuck it, and switch to Italian.
God, I hate that retarded cat meme so much…
That’s actually a cat coughing.
At least, that’s what I heard.
It’s actually a kid coughing photoshopped onto the face of a cat.
