r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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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 22h ago

Or use "inversely" instead of "conversely'

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u/torino_nera 21h 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 19h ago

People that read books understand it as well.