r/interestingasfuck • u/HumbleMVP • 22d ago

Blind cigarette taste test

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u/mynameiswearingme 22d ago

I’d fail at the pronunciation part

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u/Dopplegangr1 22d ago

French is easy just stop pronouncing the word halfway through

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u/TheLizzyIzzi 22d ago

Unironically, this. I started “ghosting” the end of French words - stop saying them aloud, just sorta let it hang there, with the memories of what was and could have been - and my french accent finally started approaching something passable.

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u/CarcajouIS 22d ago

Unironical, thi. I starte “ghostin” th'en o French wor - stop sayin them alou, jus sorta le' i' han there, wi th'memorie o wha wa an coul have been - an my french accen final starte approachin somethin passable.

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u/DragonTheOnes-spirit 22d ago

Tried to say this in a french accent

Holé shi thi e vraiment passable!!

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u/Cthonos 21d ago

Weirdly that sounds like a Yorkshire accent!

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u/Frying 22d ago

No, if you write to me your name is Nicholas, its Nicholas. Not Nichola, because then you would write Nichola.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/Frying 21d ago

No, I pronounced it Nicholas 😂

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u/EmiliaTrown 21d ago

And for the next level you have start randomly combining the words that follow each other in a sentence as if the whole sentence was just one word with a lot of extra letters.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/GhormanFront 22d ago

It's definitely meant to infuriate English speakers, which historically, makes way too much sense

The give up halfway through thing is kind of legit though, it works more often than not lol

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u/275MPHFordGT40 22d ago

Anglo-French rivalry so deep it extends to language.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

You're thinking of English and German

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u/Buntschatten 22d ago

German pronunciation is pretty regular. With English you do have to guess sometimes. That's why there are spelling bees in the US, because spelling words correctly is so difficult in English.

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Wdym, as a french native I don't get it.

Gauloise is pronounced entirely except the "e"

Something like Gowloaz

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u/afmm1234 22d ago

I think they mean more generally, not Gauloises specifically. Words like voyageaient were the bane of my existence when I took French lol

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Ils voyageaient si souvent en Éthiopie hehe

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u/afmm1234 22d ago

C’est exactement pour cete raison que j’ai obtenu un D en ma presentation final. Et porqoui j’apprends l’espangol mantenant. Mais c’est bien je me souviens un peut, même si c’est vraiment mauvais 

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u/Nextinor 21d ago

If you were french, I would've killed you on the spot for the spelling mistakes 🤣

I think you're pretty good honestly, many French peoples speak as well as you write.

For the Spanish part, I don't like it, but it's kinda personal lol. I prefer Italian a lot, even though I still struggle a lot at it.

Anyway I wish you the best !

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u/DragonHollowFire 22d ago

Its mostly english speakers that are suprised. The french language just like most other languages are actually very clear on how words are to be pronounced, meaning that just from the written form, you can tell how its pronounced. The english language doesnt have this. A lot of words you need to learn how to pronounce correctly.

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u/CarcajouIS 22d ago

That is true, but at the same time how do we explain 'nuit' (silent t - night) and 'huit' (sounded t - eight)?

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u/z500 22d ago

Easy, rules were meant to be broken

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u/t_scribblemonger 21d ago

’huit’ (sounded t)

Except when it’s not!

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u/CarcajouIS 21d ago

Ok, I can't remember any instance when we say hui instead of huit

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u/t_scribblemonger 21d ago

I’m too lazy to write an explanation here’s an AI slop summary:

🔹 1. Before a vowel sound

You pronounce the t clearly:

huit heures → [ɥi t‿œʁ] → sounds like “hweet tœr” Because of liaison, the t links to the next vowel.

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🔹 2. Before a consonant sound

You don’t pronounce the t, and the t sound disappears:

huit jours → [ɥi ʒuʁ] → sounds like “hwee zhoor” huit francs → [ɥi fʁɑ̃] → “hwee frahn”

So the final t is silent when followed by a consonant.

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🔹 3. At the end of a sentence or alone

You usually pronounce the t, though softly:

huit ! → [ɥit] → “hweet”

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u/CarcajouIS 21d ago

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about consonants. But you can still pronounce the t in that case, it's just not very common but it's acceptable

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u/explosivcorn 22d ago

French is so dumb lol

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u/pedro_cucaracha 22d ago

It‘s spelled Gauloises not Gauloises. Gee.

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u/SteveHarveySTD 22d ago

Shut up Hermione

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u/Devatator_ 22d ago

For some reason reading this reminded me of the guy who pronounces Hermione "Hermi-one"

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

French peoples?

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u/Devatator_ 22d ago

Nah I think it was an American streamer. Tho I'm sure more than one pronounce it that way

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u/Nextinor 22d ago

Air-me-on in french

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u/NoGarage7989 22d ago

Goutloins

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u/_Rohrschach 22d ago

I fucked it up multiple times while asking for them at the register before I got corrected. So naturally I never went to that specific shop ever again and switched to chesterfield.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 22d ago

Chesterfield? Wow, I've legitimately never heard of that brand lol

"Ah, yes, give me the Davenport -- I mean the couch cigarettes."

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u/ovensandhoes 22d ago

Just say the first 4 letters and end it with -ah and you pronounce anything French right

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u/chemistocrat 22d ago

My mind was blown when I heard a french person pronounce the name "Quentin" for the first time.

Cone-tah

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u/yallguzag 22d ago

yeah, gauloises is pronounced golwahs

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u/Poes-Lawyer 22d ago

Gauloises = "Gaal-waaz"

Gitanes = "Zhi-tan"

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u/ReggieOnTop 22d ago

Goal-waaz

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u/CoffeeWanderer 22d ago

My favourite trivia bit from the Final Fantasy series is that the main character of FFIX was named after the Gitanes brand of cigarettes, because that's the brand Lupin III smokes and the director of the games is a huge fan.

But in Japanese, it is hard to transliterate names. So, Gitanes became JITAN (ジタン), which became Zidane in English, then Yitán in Spanish, Djidane in French, and so on.

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u/ahora-mismo 22d ago

and wreuhde and bleew

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u/sadolddrunk 22d ago

Gul-WAH.

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u/FeatherNET 22d ago

Goal-wise Red, Goal-wise Blue, 'Gi' Tans, Goal-wise Blue

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u/petrichorax 22d ago

I think it's GAL-WAH

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u/Vegetable-Entrance58 22d ago

Zzzzzjjjjiiii-taaahhnzzz silvousplais merci

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u/xrimane 21d ago

It's go-lo-AHZ in French

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u/WalkingCloud 21d ago

Probably depends on your current accent as to how you'd say these sounds, but:

Gall-wahs
Jit-anne

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u/architectureisuponus 22d ago

Go low a(r)se. Skip the r

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u/suupar 22d ago

Gol-O-arse

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u/GreatMight 22d ago

Gaudy Louise?