I love how Woolie and Reggie aren't even mad about their language getting dissed they're more mad you're not dissing them correctly and they pull out the list on you and start dissing themselves
"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes." The alleged final words of Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras before being guillotined in the French Revolution
@@kaijuultimax9407 Which means they may also be right about the Irish Reunification of 2024. Which there are political trends leaning towards. It's almost as if...
It's funny that the original video was clearly made for people who have no relationship to the French language, and both Woolie/Reggie were getting angry that the video wasn't optimizing it's anti-French metagame.
"DO NOT COME AT ME WITH THIS CHEESE! That is a bug that's getting fixed next patch, not intentional! If your only method of making it past pools is cheese, then I refuse to play against someone so lacking in dignity" FGC Javik
In Paris I asked in French "do you speak English?" To the cashier at a store to ask about a product. He wasn't even like a crochety old man or anything he was probably mid 20's and it's a bug taxidermy shop so I'd assume it's not uppity, it's a bug store. When he rolled his eyes and spoke PERFECT ENGLISH with a generic American accent, no hint of French in it, it was shocking. Like he wanted to spit in my face is what it felt like.
Have stopped to look at the mixed bag that is English? It's terrible once you try to explain it since it cribs from other languages including a ton of French.
@@razorburn645 English is stupid because it's got a bunch of loan words and jams the rules of other languages together to make their rulebook but the original rules of those languages have some stupid shit in them too. All languages got some aspect of "why the fuck" to them, I'm sure.
My Filipino coworker in english (Her 3rd language): "The weather been too hot. My Lawn is ret*rded." Me: "... That doesn't exactly mean what you think it means." Coworker: "What you mean? My grass ret*rded. Not growing. Is too dry." Good on her for getting this far in a third language tho.
It's not wrong by the very literal meaning, but the subtle social customs are definitely not something we can expect someone that doesn't speak English as a first language to pick up on. Still funny tho lmao
I mean, by what "retarded" means in a context outside of a individual human being that usage of word is correct. The additional example would be something like "Fire Retardant" because it retards fire. It's a word that has additional meanings when used properly.
can't believe Woolie hates french for somehow finding a way to shoehorn 420 into two-digit numbers, literally the only laudable thing about that hell language
As an American that only speaks English because my peanut-sized smoothbrain can't handle more than one language, seeing Woolie and Reggie go off on how fucking stupid counting from 70 to 100 in French is really satisfying
I know a second language but that statement comes with an asterisk because I can speak German on MAYBE a kindergarten level. If I tried to talk with a German it’d be like an adult trying to have a conversation with a baby.
The conjugation part was real as a Portuguese speaker LOL we also have perfect past tense, imperfect past tense and "more than perfect past tense" and a couple others. Like, just why????
Because our ancestors were writers who never stopped and need more ways to describe stuff. Portuguese Literature is great but fuck me if there isnt alot of nonsense with the grammar.
Other languages: no don't say that about my language, there's a logic/beauty about it Woolie on French: HERE ARE THE WEAK POINTS, HIT THEM WITH THESE ELEMENTS FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE
Woolie is too good for this world. Take it from someone who does not speak french and had to go to france for school when he was 13. There are plenty of french people who will just not want to talk to you because you do not speak their language properly.
Casually Explained: haha some words sound funny and its easy to mix them up Woolie: MOTHERF**KER I WANT YOU TO READ ONE PAGE OF THIS BOOK AND TELL ME WHAT THE CONJUGATIONS ARE! GO TO PAGE TROIS CENT QUATRE-VINGT DIX-NEUF
oh god, this video made me realize i act the same way french people act towards Quebecois french but towards British English and for the same reasons.... i dont feel bad.
I'm a native Spanish speaker and when I was 17 I had two semesters of French at school. I struggled so hard since French and Spanish are both very similar yet different enough to each other that my brain always tried to apply Spanish logic to French words, pronunciation and phrases. I've been taking Japanese these days and while certainly not easy, I've been having a smoother time compared to French
I think it’s important to acknowledge that France has a tax-funded institution named l’Academie Française that exists to “decide what is and isn’t french”. So taking a language, a thing that exists to evolve and follow its speakers, and putting it in stasis with (what I can only assume is) the intention of killing it; because how can a language survive a thing like that? And hold on to your hat because here’s the best bit: The men on this council call themselves “Immortals”. Could any of us ever own the French as hard as they’ve owned themselves?
What’s sad about the government French courses is that they refuse to speak zero English. At least the one in Montreal a rosemont high school they sent us to. So most of us never understood what we were learning which I find a strange way to teach. We all come from different countries and have a common language, a bit of English. Why wouldn’t they ease up and use English at first level French to help us understand and then once we get better to second level, then start to only speak French? The teacher we had would condescend us for making mistakes. Told us her 8 year old child could do better. Laugh at us if we pronounced something wrong. Most of us dropped the class cuz we were meant to feel like the teacher had a power trip knowing we are depending on this course to communicate in this province. Maybe some resentment for immigrants as it was clear she thought she was better than us. This discouraged me to ever take another government course again. I’ve just been learning it as much as I can on my own and at work.
Fun fact, tied in with the previous video: "oe" is officially "ligatured" in words: œuf, cœur, œil. For those wondering, "plus-que-parfait" expresses an action in the past of a past action. It is the equivalent of "past perfect". "Passé composé" is roughly "present perfect". What's more annoying than tenses are the modes: indicatif (the standard one), conditionnel (to express wishes/conditional actions), subjonctif (used for hypothetical actions), etc. More seriously, european french people rarely use half of the tenses, and doing so is seen as pedantic.
The counting thing gets that bad right away in Welsh. 11 is "one ten and one". 12, for some reason, is "two tens". 13 14 15 etc are "one ten and three/four/five". 20 gets its own word, "ugain", for some reason, which is immediately dropped by 21, which is "two tens and one" (which is said as 12 and 1). And when you hit 30, it's "one ten and one twenty". Shits wild.
and if you speak latin american spanish you speak the best sounding version of Spanish since many Spaniard cultures decided to force a lisp into their speech in imitation of one beloved king and it stuck.
@@RubyRoks chairs and benches are female, stools and car seats are male. Apples and oranges are female, lemons and tomatos are male, while bananas can be either depending where you live. Cars and trains are male but motorcycles and bicycles are female, a bus can be either depending where you live. As for why is it this way? Man idk
Me: Cette fille était la plus belle femme que j'ai jamais vu de ma vie. Quand elle m'a parlé, j'étais tellement contente. (That girl was the most beautiful woman that I've ever seen. When she spoke to me, I was so happy-with-a-bit-too-much-emphasis-on-the-T) The French: What are you, a woman?
I mean, you did use "contente" as an adjective of yourself in that last sentence which is the only indicator of your gender. There is a pretty big difference in pronunciation between "content" and "contente", the last "t" is silent for "content" while the female version adds a whole syllable to the word, so "con-ten" vs "con-ten-te".
It brings me great sadness to hear Woolie refer to Inspector Cluseau not only as a doctor but also as Steve Martin, because for so long I had forgotten those reboots existed and he was still Peter Sellers in my mind
I studied French for 6 years in the American education system and I've never recovered edit: bro the 90s must have been rough for kids trying to learn dates in French
i dunno, replacing 80 with 420 is a pretty strong move. 69 should probably be replaced with cinquante-dix-neuf, because it sounds more like suck on deez nuts just offering some suggestions to make this beautiful language better
I will say this about what the video discussed, in Paris there are people in hospitality or customer service jobs that will get offended with your French. I don't understand why when it is clear the person is a non-native speaker and is trying their best. But I am biased growing up in Hawaii where it is expected to give good customer service because we deal with tourists all the time. Although in Paris it should also be this way it doesn't work out.
It's weird that they talk about French today, and specifically French counting, because I was JUST talking to my coworkers about this in the breakroom on Wednesday. How different languages deal with higher numbers, and which languages cut off unique words at a certain point and just start adding. It's fascinating, I love language and I wish I had time to learn them. Also, it's really funny to me that other countries sometimes look down on those who speak their language with a foreign accent. In the US, I can only speak for myself of course, but I love listening to English in foreign accents. In fact, some people learning English as their second language tend to speak it better than most people here who only know it and nothing else. The amount of slurring, slang, and inarticulate nonsense I hear from some people makes me wish for the sweet tones of a foreigner who spent time and effort to learn English.
I do share that same passion for english and different languages. I have bit of a heavy accent, but I have been told that I talk fancier than most US born citizens. If you are curious, my native language is Spanish
Speaking of oiseau, the French for goose is "oie". It is pronounced as "u-a", aka the other two remaining vowels. The word has three letters in it and they are all pronounced wrong.
Being German, I both chuckle about the video they’re watching because it’s a similar hell if you try to speak German with directly translated words from English AND I’m trying to handle my PTSD from high school when Woolie started the whole counting thing. The suffering….the suffering…
This is hilarious, bringing back memories of my French immersion school life over on the west coast of Canada. The goddamn Bescherelle!!! I think I still have mine too
My favorite part about quatre-vingt dix-neuf (99) is that it's like they realized how terribly wrong this was going and go right back down to a simple "cent" for 100. If you're born in 1999, good luck trying to say the full version of that 5 times fast. Meanwhile the lucky ones born in 2000 just get a simple "deux mille".
Me and some friends got into the numbers bit a while back and I threw down my hat and said "Quatre-vingt-deez nuts" and it both brought everyone out of anger and ended the discussion
I attempted to learn German in college and it didn't really stick, but it has almost all the same problems as French, minus the stupid 17th-century counting, but with the addition of everything sounding angry or drunk.
That's how you know, they know. Well they might not know the reason we stop using "Septante", "Octante" and "Nonante". But they know enough french to understand some of our stupid rules.
No shit, I have learned more French from watching y'all than I ever have from any other source in my life. Which isn't a whole lot, but it's more than nothing.
French is so weird that even among other romance languages it feels like an alien language. As a speaker of a romance language I can understand the other ones mostly fine but whenever I hear something in French I'm like "uhhhh what in the world are you saying??"
I honestly feel like we have the exact kind of bullshit like that in german (not the 4x20, but we do call a 61 a "one and sixty"), only with the added joy of a third neuter definite article. And no, the "gender" of an object is not based on any logical reasoning. For instance, a car has the neuter "das", but a bus has the masculine "der", and a metro or subway has the female "die" (traditional trains are back to "der" btw).
Latin isn't that hard though, it's just a lot to take in initially. Now, good luck with ancient greek, which is just latin on steroids while still being somehow completely different from most latin roots
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I love how Woolie and Reggie aren't even mad about their language getting dissed they're more mad you're not dissing them correctly and they pull out the list on you and start dissing themselves
Gimme quality.
No low hanging fruit
Authority: Who do you think you are? You're not pulling any lists on them - you're pulling the list *on yourself*
"If you're going to insult us do it correctly."
"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes."
The alleged final words of Thomas de Mahy, Marquis de Favras before being guillotined in the French Revolution
I fucking love it when Woolie, Reggie, and Pat go off about their crazy made up language
It's also a dead language, according to Star Trek
@@JackgarPrime According to real demographical trends, it's actively heading in that direction.
@@kaijuultimax9407 Which means they may also be right about the Irish Reunification of 2024. Which there are political trends leaning towards. It's almost as if...
@@kaijuultimax9407I hope not. As an Irish person I'd hate to see any other language die off like our's has
@@markclinton9088 What about sacrificing french in order to get irish gaelic back? Fullmetal Alchemist equal exchange?
“You look like you’re taking damage.”
Reggie was so glad he said something.
It's funny that the original video was clearly made for people who have no relationship to the French language, and both Woolie/Reggie were getting angry that the video wasn't optimizing it's anti-French metagame.
"DO NOT COME AT ME WITH THIS CHEESE! That is a bug that's getting fixed next patch, not intentional! If your only method of making it past pools is cheese, then I refuse to play against someone so lacking in dignity"
FGC Javik
If woolie ever uploads the great cheese debate expect to see the reverse happen
In Paris I asked in French "do you speak English?" To the cashier at a store to ask about a product. He wasn't even like a crochety old man or anything he was probably mid 20's and it's a bug taxidermy shop so I'd assume it's not uppity, it's a bug store. When he rolled his eyes and spoke PERFECT ENGLISH with a generic American accent, no hint of French in it, it was shocking. Like he wanted to spit in my face is what it felt like.
He did, but not because you deigned to speak to him in a peasant language, but because you deigned to speak to a superior Frenchman at all.
The most reasonable least shitty french person
I'm glad you made him miserable
Woolie acting like the Parisian superiority complex isn't a super well known thing is genuinely hilarious to me.
Paris would be perfect without Parisians ❤️
No wonder so many Europeans counties went to war with France i would too if i heard their Loony Toons language
Also latin America as well
@@reco5able Even the Native Americans couldn't put up with it, they went after the Franch ON SIGHT
No wonder Quebec is so uppity. On an island surrounded by hostile colonials and natives.
Have stopped to look at the mixed bag that is English? It's terrible once you try to explain it since it cribs from other languages including a ton of French.
@@razorburn645 English is stupid because it's got a bunch of loan words and jams the rules of other languages together to make their rulebook but the original rules of those languages have some stupid shit in them too.
All languages got some aspect of "why the fuck" to them, I'm sure.
My Filipino coworker in english (Her 3rd language): "The weather been too hot. My Lawn is ret*rded."
Me: "... That doesn't exactly mean what you think it means."
Coworker: "What you mean? My grass ret*rded. Not growing. Is too dry."
Good on her for getting this far in a third language tho.
It's not wrong by the very literal meaning, but the subtle social customs are definitely not something we can expect someone that doesn't speak English as a first language to pick up on. Still funny tho lmao
I mean, by what "retarded" means in a context outside of a individual human being that usage of word is correct. The additional example would be something like "Fire Retardant" because it retards fire. It's a word that has additional meanings when used properly.
can't believe Woolie hates french for somehow finding a way to shoehorn 420 into two-digit numbers, literally the only laudable thing about that hell language
Clearly they didn't think any number after 69 was worth counting
I remember my own French teacher casually stating the course she was teaching was completely nonsense
As an American that only speaks English because my peanut-sized smoothbrain can't handle more than one language, seeing Woolie and Reggie go off on how fucking stupid counting from 70 to 100 in French is really satisfying
I know a second language but that statement comes with an asterisk because I can speak German on MAYBE a kindergarten level. If I tried to talk with a German it’d be like an adult trying to have a conversation with a baby.
Constantly being informed that French people get mad when you mess up their terrible space language is never ending schadenfreude for me
"Fuck that, 4 20!-"
Soundbite acquired ;)
As someone who was taught and learned in the grimy coliseum of Cajun French.
All yall fancy to us, and we detest you for it.
Jesus Christ, French is a Star Wars language lmao
It's basically canon now, Twileks usually have a French accent if they're from their homeworld of Ryloth
Muka shaka paka.
@@Spookdookinwhat the fuck? According to Google translate that means "don't doubt the cat"
We have that "more-then-perfect" shit in brazilian-portuguese too It's wild
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING.
Can’t wait to see Reggie in winners pool for competitive French.
Can't lie, he sounds hotter in French
Man, I remember when Woolie and the guys had the exact same rant about French numerals on one of the early podcasts. Shit is fucking stupid.
Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf? More like quatre-vingt-deez-nutz
you know it's gonna get crazy when he pulls out the book
The conjugation part was real as a Portuguese speaker LOL
we also have perfect past tense, imperfect past tense and "more than perfect past tense" and a couple others. Like, just why????
Because our ancestors were writers who never stopped and need more ways to describe stuff.
Portuguese Literature is great but fuck me if there isnt alot of nonsense with the grammar.
Hearing all this again I’m starting to remember why I had like Straight D+ in my HS French class.
There's 2 rabbit holes for french: the France one (origin french), and the Quebec one (wild french).
French literally said stop at 69 and "LET'S GOOOO" on 4x20
Other languages: no don't say that about my language, there's a logic/beauty about it
Woolie on French: HERE ARE THE WEAK POINTS, HIT THEM WITH THESE ELEMENTS FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE
Alright then, I'm booking a flight to Belgium to learn their French
Woolie is too good for this world. Take it from someone who does not speak french and had to go to france for school when he was 13. There are plenty of french people who will just not want to talk to you because you do not speak their language properly.
Imagine being asked > and you have to respond with > and your classmate just says >
Casually Explained: haha some words sound funny and its easy to mix them up
Woolie: MOTHERF**KER I WANT YOU TO READ ONE PAGE OF THIS BOOK AND TELL ME WHAT THE CONJUGATIONS ARE! GO TO PAGE TROIS CENT QUATRE-VINGT DIX-NEUF
This kind of incredibly niche content about dumb stuff in language is what I thrive on
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and other romance languages looking in disgust at how French counts from 70 onwards.
oh god, this video made me realize i act the same way french people act towards Quebecois french but towards British English and for the same reasons.... i dont feel bad.
Main reason why VILLAINS and other jerk people used to have british accents in US media
This is legit why I found japanese easier to learn. Having a totally different alphabet and grammar made it easier to learn
I'm a native Spanish speaker and when I was 17 I had two semesters of French at school. I struggled so hard since French and Spanish are both very similar yet different enough to each other that my brain always tried to apply Spanish logic to French words, pronunciation and phrases. I've been taking Japanese these days and while certainly not easy, I've been having a smoother time compared to French
took french in high school, and this is bringing up old stress all over again
I think it’s important to acknowledge that France has a tax-funded institution named l’Academie Française that exists to “decide what is and isn’t french”. So taking a language, a thing that exists to evolve and follow its speakers, and putting it in stasis with (what I can only assume is) the intention of killing it; because how can a language survive a thing like that? And hold on to your hat because here’s the best bit:
The men on this council call themselves “Immortals”.
Could any of us ever own the French as hard as they’ve owned themselves?
Hands down, the East coaster cab driver describing french number system is my favorite vid of this nature
I'm starting to think that playing the French Army DLC for Battlefield 1 didn't prepare me to meet my girlfriend's parents...
Well, you can't have messed up too bad if she's still your girlfriend.
Good luck!
i mean love is war and all that
@@Rald623S so what you are saying is that I need to just spam "PTFO! PTFO!" in my potential partners' DMs?
Walk up to their door and they go "Ils ne passeront pas!"
Oh man the Conjugation was giving me flashbacks
What’s sad about the government French courses is that they refuse to speak zero English. At least the one in Montreal a rosemont high school they sent us to.
So most of us never understood what we were learning which I find a strange way to teach. We all come from different countries and have a common language, a bit of English. Why wouldn’t they ease up and use English at first level French to help us understand and then once we get better to second level, then start to only speak French?
The teacher we had would condescend us for making mistakes. Told us her 8 year old child could do better. Laugh at us if we pronounced something wrong.
Most of us dropped the class cuz we were meant to feel like the teacher had a power trip knowing we are depending on this course to communicate in this province. Maybe some resentment for immigrants as it was clear she thought she was better than us. This discouraged me to ever take another government course again. I’ve just been learning it as much as I can on my own and at work.
Fun fact, tied in with the previous video: "oe" is officially "ligatured" in words: œuf, cœur, œil.
For those wondering, "plus-que-parfait" expresses an action in the past of a past action. It is the equivalent of "past perfect". "Passé composé" is roughly "present perfect".
What's more annoying than tenses are the modes: indicatif (the standard one), conditionnel (to express wishes/conditional actions), subjonctif (used for hypothetical actions), etc.
More seriously, european french people rarely use half of the tenses, and doing so is seen as pedantic.
The counting thing gets that bad right away in Welsh. 11 is "one ten and one". 12, for some reason, is "two tens". 13 14 15 etc are "one ten and three/four/five". 20 gets its own word, "ugain", for some reason, which is immediately dropped by 21, which is "two tens and one" (which is said as 12 and 1). And when you hit 30, it's "one ten and one twenty". Shits wild.
Well of course it gets weird, you're the one who decided to speak in elvish
It's probably because, like french, the numerical system of the old celtic language was in base 20
>Hearing them talk about the time conjugations.
The Spanish were right. They can't go beyond perfect. That is their limit.
Spanish has the same conjugation debacle but at least is somewhat functional in comparison to french
At least our numbers are consistent and make perfect sense for 99.9% of them.
and if you speak latin american spanish you speak the best sounding version of Spanish since many Spaniard cultures decided to force a lisp into their speech in imitation of one beloved king and it stuck.
@@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski LATAM spanish aka. The only real Spanish
My biggest bafflement with spanish is that everything is gendered. Why are shirts female?
@@RubyRoks chairs and benches are female, stools and car seats are male.
Apples and oranges are female, lemons and tomatos are male, while bananas can be either depending where you live.
Cars and trains are male but motorcycles and bicycles are female, a bus can be either depending where you live.
As for why is it this way?
Man idk
Me: Cette fille était la plus belle femme que j'ai jamais vu de ma vie. Quand elle m'a parlé, j'étais tellement contente.
(That girl was the most beautiful woman that I've ever seen. When she spoke to me, I was so happy-with-a-bit-too-much-emphasis-on-the-T)
The French: What are you, a woman?
I mean, you did use "contente" as an adjective of yourself in that last sentence which is the only indicator of your gender. There is a pretty big difference in pronunciation between "content" and "contente", the last "t" is silent for "content" while the female version adds a whole syllable to the word, so "con-ten" vs "con-ten-te".
so you're telling me that the way to say 99 in french is "quatre vingt deez nuts"
Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf? More like quatre-vingt-deez-nuts.
Ah who could forget that everyday of the weekend ending in di except for Sunday which is Dimanche
It brings me great sadness to hear Woolie refer to Inspector Cluseau not only as a doctor but also as Steve Martin, because for so long I had forgotten those reboots existed and he was still Peter Sellers in my mind
Here In Egypt you have to pick a third language to learn in high school. If you pick French, everyone you know will call you gay.
Nice
I studied French for 6 years in the American education system and I've never recovered
edit: bro the 90s must have been rough for kids trying to learn dates in French
It always comes back to counting in French
I enjoy wooly giving me the frame data On French
i dunno, replacing 80 with 420 is a pretty strong move. 69 should probably be replaced with cinquante-dix-neuf, because it sounds more like suck on deez nuts
just offering some suggestions to make this beautiful language better
I will say this about what the video discussed, in Paris there are people in hospitality or customer service jobs that will get offended with your French. I don't understand why when it is clear the person is a non-native speaker and is trying their best. But I am biased growing up in Hawaii where it is expected to give good customer service because we deal with tourists all the time. Although in Paris it should also be this way it doesn't work out.
Don't worry, Parisians have a terrible reputation even amongst the rest of the country.
@@NSUSashiel This, Paris is basically France's equivalent of California. A stupidly expensive part of the country, filled with bitter & angry people
It's weird that they talk about French today, and specifically French counting, because I was JUST talking to my coworkers about this in the breakroom on Wednesday. How different languages deal with higher numbers, and which languages cut off unique words at a certain point and just start adding. It's fascinating, I love language and I wish I had time to learn them.
Also, it's really funny to me that other countries sometimes look down on those who speak their language with a foreign accent. In the US, I can only speak for myself of course, but I love listening to English in foreign accents. In fact, some people learning English as their second language tend to speak it better than most people here who only know it and nothing else. The amount of slurring, slang, and inarticulate nonsense I hear from some people makes me wish for the sweet tones of a foreigner who spent time and effort to learn English.
I do share that same passion for english and different languages. I have bit of a heavy accent, but I have been told that I talk fancier than most US born citizens.
If you are curious, my native language is Spanish
Speaking of oiseau, the French for goose is "oie". It is pronounced as "u-a", aka the other two remaining vowels. The word has three letters in it and they are all pronounced wrong.
Being German, I both chuckle about the video they’re watching because it’s a similar hell if you try to speak German with directly translated words from English
AND I’m trying to handle my PTSD from high school when Woolie started the whole counting thing. The suffering….the suffering…
This is hilarious, bringing back memories of my French immersion school life over on the west coast of Canada. The goddamn Bescherelle!!! I think I still have mine too
My favorite part about quatre-vingt dix-neuf (99) is that it's like they realized how terribly wrong this was going and go right back down to a simple "cent" for 100. If you're born in 1999, good luck trying to say the full version of that 5 times fast. Meanwhile the lucky ones born in 2000 just get a simple "deux mille".
Me and some friends got into the numbers bit a while back and I threw down my hat and said "Quatre-vingt-deez nuts" and it both brought everyone out of anger and ended the discussion
Qatre-vingt-dix-nuts is exactly what I heard
I attempted to learn German in college and it didn't really stick, but it has almost all the same problems as French, minus the stupid 17th-century counting, but with the addition of everything sounding angry or drunk.
As a German, I approve of what you said.
Italian has *Imperfect Tense* too.
As a high schooler who takes French, I understand the frustration and pain that comes behind numbers.
That's how you know, they know.
Well they might not know the reason we stop using "Septante", "Octante" and "Nonante". But they know enough french to understand some of our stupid rules.
Do you need to Roman Cancel into the perfect subjunctive tense?
No shit, I have learned more French from watching y'all than I ever have from any other source in my life. Which isn't a whole lot, but it's more than nothing.
Oh that goddamn book. Woolie over here tiger ring me this early in the morning. I member that all too well
Woolie Gatekeeps Hating The French
i think it's time we passé simple french altogether
imagine this language gets mixed with some other romance language and their own own stuff on an island that language would make so much sense
French is so weird that even among other romance languages it feels like an alien language. As a speaker of a romance language I can understand the other ones mostly fine but whenever I hear something in French I'm like "uhhhh what in the world are you saying??"
Hannibal Burress taught me all the French I know.
13:45 technically we do anytime we say “I feel” or “I saw”
loved this as a fellow canadian
I honestly feel like we have the exact kind of bullshit like that in german (not the 4x20, but we do call a 61 a "one and sixty"), only with the added joy of a third neuter definite article. And no, the "gender" of an object is not based on any logical reasoning. For instance, a car has the neuter "das", but a bus has the masculine "der", and a metro or subway has the female "die" (traditional trains are back to "der" btw).
Von den Fällen wollen wir gar nicht erst anfangen…..
French numbers prevented French science. Like the Irish invention of whiskey was the last invention in Ireland.
What
I feel there were other factors that stopped the Irish from inventing things. Like the attempted genocide the English did to them.
80 in French is 4x20? Eey 420
And 99 is Catri vang Deez nuts??
French is chill in my book
See, this is why I chose to learn German in high school instead of French.
Am I insane? Have I not seen this exact clip before?
did you watch it live?
Frog moonspeak
Woolie your teaching math again and I'm scared
All the hard parts of English is because of the French. Damn you William!
"There are good reasons to attack the French, th-"
"no no, that's the end of that sentence" - the English
Thank god we ignore 80% of these rules like Yu-Gi-Oh players not reading card effects.
French: É, Er, Et, Ai, Ez, Ée, Aient
English: Ayyyyy
The more I learn about other languages, makes me understand why some prefer English or Spanish, if they know it.
God don't get me started with Latin verb tenses. Did you know that latin has THREE perfect tenses??? Perfect, future perfect, and PLU-PERFECT?????????
Latin isn't that hard though, it's just a lot to take in initially. Now, good luck with ancient greek, which is just latin on steroids while still being somehow completely different from most latin roots
Sounds like you guys need Loic Suberville shorts added to the reaction list.
yeah Verbs is hard even for french natives, a bunch of people in school would fail
Count Dix-Neufs
this reminds of that new york cab driver video
Once upon a time I thought French was one of the sexiest languages ever. Then I hooked up with a French chick...
8:00 their pronunciation of "vingt" is killing me
It's pronounced Gascwan.
Wow, Woolie has not been to Paris, has he?
It’s delivered dry to make the bit better.
Ah yeah, the verb stuff is in any mother latin language. Spanish has tons of it too but at least knows how to count good.
which stream is this from? I don't remember seeing this one or the oeuf one
I think I still have one somewhere. Might be the Français/Anglais. My good old Besch.
Good thing Cell was grown in a Japanese lab rather than a French one, otherwise Goku would've had to fight "More Perfect Cell" 😂❤
You know, I think I always give up on learning French/Creole because of the number nonsense.
Volume: 20/100
portuguese also has about that many verbal tenses, it gets silly