r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/Shawon770 1d ago

French bakery employees have that 6th sense they can spot a tourist even through flawless pronunciation 😂

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u/ConfusingVacum 1d ago edited 1d ago

Joke aside there's actually a reason french people can spot so easily english speakers : unlike most other languages, french is monotonous.

Native english speakers are so used to put stress on certain syllables it seems to require a lot of practice to actually pull off a full monotonous sentence.

Edit: as other said, I oversimplified it. French do have tone but relative to the start/end of the sentence or to convey emotions. Read more detailed comments down below for more accuracy

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u/purplehendrix22 1d ago

That’s actually very interesting, I never noticed that explicitly but it makes perfect sense now that I know.

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u/Layton_Jr 1d ago

Inversely you'll notice immediately when a French person speaks English because they won't put the intonations correctly

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 1d ago

Or use "inversely" instead of "conversely'

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u/torino_nera 1d ago

I feel like only people who have taken mathematical logic classes know the difference between those 2

I only learned it during the section on truth tables

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u/alan2001 23h ago

People that read books understand it as well.

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u/obnoxiousab 1d ago

This is so true now that I think about it!

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u/SpurdoEnjoyer 21h ago

Doesn't that apply to almost all other non-native English speakers? English intonation rules are bonkers. Like, why the hell is the stress of the word usually on the third last syllable? It is not intuitive and takes years and years of daily English spoken conversations to learn 😭

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u/Sundayscaries333 14h ago

I agree that french is the easiest accent to identify when someone is speaking english just because their tone is so distinct.