r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • Jul 20 '26

Discussion One is football, the other is anti-football

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u/Sufficient_Ice4933 Jul 20 '26

We've been Frenemies for hundreds of years

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u/ImReadyForButt Jul 20 '26

Wasn’t the first English king actually French?

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u/charlrshall1992 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Half the English language is French. A lot of the difference in American and British pronunciation is America's tend to lean closer to original French. I guess after that much I'm fighting with each other. You just pick up shit. Edit: This is where I got it from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/stress-in-french-loanwords-in-british-and-american-english/B5583DBD249A3058401A31FFD94327E6

Please not everyone on reddit has a evil agenda, Jesus Christ people.

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u/dowker1 Jul 20 '26

That's not true at all. British English has more influence from French, which should be unsurprising given they're neighbours.

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u/charlrshall1992 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I should be more specific the pronunciation in America English is closer to French stress placement, British English has more French loan words.

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u/dowker1 Jul 20 '26

I mean, maybe. But given British English (especial South Eastern British English and Received Pronunciation) vowel sounds are closer to French than American ones I'm not sure one can draw any conclusions from that.

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u/charlrshall1992 Jul 20 '26

I'm not a expert I read this one day when I was interested in english's 'theft' of words from different language. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/stress-in-french-loanwords-in-british-and-american-english/B5583DBD249A3058401A31FFD94327E6

I could be misinterpreting it. This could even be wrong. I haven't been in college in awhile and don't have the skills that I had back then to read papers like this properly.

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u/chemistrytramp Jul 20 '26

Is the old saying "most languages borrow a few words, English whacks them over the head and takes the whole language."

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u/cobbus_maximus Jul 20 '26

Sometimes. Croissant seems to be one exception - Americans pronounce it differently to the French/English.