Person: “Ça va?”
Other person: “Ça va. Ça va?”
Person: “Ça va.”

polyglotplatypus:

but wait, because there is a common expression that really rustles my jimmies, that is “au jour d’aujourd’hui” which basically means “as of now”, but if you translate it literally it becomes “in the day of the day of today”

if i could physically kill the french language i would

casispie:

hugealienpie:

thechubbynerd:

just-shower-thoughts:

Contractions function almost identically to the full two-word phrase, but are only appropriate in some places in a sentence. It’s one of the weird quirks of this language we’ve.

This post needs some kind of warning sign.

I did not see that coming.

Some people say the English language is confusing. To which I say… It’s.

language-craze:

lemonadeandlanguages:

I’m pretty sure everyone who speaks Spanish knows how impossible it is to ask for a straw in a country that is not your own. So here are the different words for straw and the country where they are used!

1. Pajita

Argentina, Chile, Spain, Uruguay

2. Pajilla

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

3. Pitillo

Colombia, Venezuela

4. Bombilla

Bolivia, Chile

5. Calimete

Dominican Republic

6. Cañita

Peru

7. Carrizo

Panama

8. Popote

Mexico

9. Sorbete

Argentina, Ecuador, Peru

10. Sorbeto

Puerto Rico

11. Absorbente

Cuba

Remember that these words can have very different, sometimes vulgar, meanings in different countries. Be careful of what you say!!

Source: (x)

@spanish speaking countries: why do u like to suffer

prokopetz:

justiceruthbaderginsburg:

retroactivebakeries:

the term “edgelord” implies the existence of an entire hierarchical structure of edgenobility. there ought to be like, edgedukes and edgeviscounts running around. edgesquires. edgecomtessas.  

Edgemarquis

Hah!

Historically, the distinction between a count and a marquis is that a marquis’ domain lies at the border of the kingdom, and is thus more likely to be attacked by hostile forces. This position of elevated trust is why a marquis traditionally outranks a count.

Now, the domain of a marquis is called a “march”, derived from the Old French marche (”border, boundary”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European mereg, which translates as… “edge”.

A marquis, then, is a literal edge-lord; i.e., lord of an “edge”, or border domain.

We must therefore conclude that an edgemarquis is twice as edgy as other edgelords.

comparativelysuperlative:

noseforahtwo:

My kink is faithful and belligerent use of the Oxford comma.

Oh come on, you write that sentence and use a list of exactly two adjectives?