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They 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.
by wat10000 7mo ago
They 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