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Wait until you learn that the French has a different word for many other concepts too! Crazy! Why can't they just use plain English nobody knows. \s

• 908B64B197 4y ago
  > Wait until you learn that the French has a different word for many other concepts too! But it gets more interesting, they use the same words (or a very similar one) as in English to express different concepts. "Crier" sounds like cry, but it means "to scream".
  • sofixa 4y ago
    Even worse, there are "English sounding words" that mean things in French that don't exist and wouldn't make sense in English. E.g pressing is a dry cleaner, dressing is a wardrobe, footing is jogging.
  • baggy_trough 4y ago
    Like 'cry out'.