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Thanks for this! As a French, I always wondered why this oddity. That should also be introduced when teachers explain hexadecimal :-)

• picklesman 4y ago
  Me too! Btw, in the spirit of the title of this thread, in English you would say "as a French person". In the past, "Frenchman" was used but it's understandably out of favour these days. "French" can be used as an adjective but not a noun in this context. It's a very common error, I suppose since "français" can be used as an adjective or a noun en français :)
  • euroderf 4y ago
    And don't forget french as a verb! -said every high school guy ever
    • picklesman 4y ago
      Ha! Indeed! In fact in informal Quebecois French, it's also used as a verb, with the same meaning as in English. As in "J'ai Frenché ma blonde" --> "I Frenched my girlfriend"
  • causality0 4y ago
    That is wrong. The demonym for a person from France is "French". It only sounds wrong to an English ear because we're so used to calling them Frenchmen, but it's chauvinism on our part, not a linguistic mistake on theirs.