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Gotta get it right or you'll order some wind instead of some wine. (Did that once, and that's how the difference finally stuck for me.)
by wat10000 7mo ago
Gotta get it right or you'll order some wind instead of some wine. (Did that once, and that's how the difference finally stuck for me.)
- throwaway894345 7mo agoWhat did the server bring to your table? A fan?
- wat10000 7mo agoThey understood what I meant, and then the French folks I was with had a long discussion with me about how it's not the same sound.
- throwaway894345 7mo agoYeah, I've been there. Apparently my pronunciation of "Chretien" (Christian) was indecipherable, and the French people I was speaking with clarified it for me by saying, "you're saying cray-tee-uh(n), but it's pronounced cray-tee-uh(n)"
- dolmen 7mo agoAnd note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin