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The official government institution for preserving the French language is the Académie française and one of my hobbies is actually reading the updates on their website, it’s always so funny. Just lambasting new English loanwords and trying to shame people into using French terms instead. Some examples of their grumpily anglophobic entries:

My favourite entry:

“ASAP: This abbreviation, which is far from transparent, seems to accrue most of the vices of a language that conceals its contemptuous and comminatory character under the rags of a spurious modernity”

Tom Holkenborg - London Suite in C Major from the Mortal Engines Soundtrack

thomas!

Anyone remember the Space (TV Channel) we got DS9 season 7 in reruns promo and it goes :

"Picard you look like you could use some rest"

(cartoon sounds of someone fainting) "Make way for Season 7 of Deep Space Nine!"

(footage from season 6)

this article is behind a paywall but i'm obsessed with the headline + photo combo

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

Still one of my fav GTA videos

the sickness at the core of america, according to brennan

the terror (dan simmons, 2007)

I love when Tumblr has random funny bullshit videos without any description like this and I just have to trust either that my mutuals wouldn't put unfunny things on my dash or that I've made good decisions on who to follow

Sharing the original video because nothing could prepare me for the offical sketch the police department sent.

NGL that is WAY funnier than Sasuke

The final version we saw on screen wasn't necessarily how that ship started, so out of these specific ships, which one would you have wanted to see on screen

Bim Bam Bond: Diamonds are Forever with (a good chunk of) Bim Bam Smash from The Bourne Supremacy

unmute for mask sounds,

The Terror S1E7 (2018) // Ravenous (1999)

Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, Militant Mary

November 13, 1914

Ok this is kinda funny but imagine being surrounded by people who sound like this. The French language was a mistake in the first place but combining it with English…. abomination

@033h we’ve been saying

“toc toc toc toc you are now a porcupicicle”

to hear the québécois pronunciation of montreal in its original “muh-ray-aul” and as if it’s one syllable. perfect

“directement above your appartement”

Hi. Montrealer here. This is a person putting on a FRANCE French accent and speaking a combination of French and English - NOT Québeçois. There are clear tells of this: they use “ze” for “the” when Québeçois would be more like “de,” the “oui” is pronounced “we” instead of “ouais,” and all the vowels are very front of mouth forward (as in France French). Accent aside, no one walks around Montreal speaking like this. People speak French or English with various accents from around the world, the dominants obviously being Québecois French and Canadian English. In fact, the most linguistically diverse neighbourhood in all of Canada is located in Montreal with a reported 48 mother tongues. Yes there is some mixing of words and phrases, some anglicisms and frenchisms in both languages, but what is in this video is not representative of that in the slightest.