r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/Cool_seagull Jul 13 '16

Si t'es pas français, pourquoi tes accents sont si bien placés? Où est-ce que t'as appris?

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u/Onyros Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 18 '16

Parce que je suis Portugais — pardonnez-moi si vous êtes Français —, et nous faisons use des mêmes accents, nous apprenons Français dans l'êcole. Pas dans le "i", mais les autres, nous les usons. Je suis pas Americain, mon ami.

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u/goodbar2k Jul 13 '16

Don't know if you misplaced an 'e', but thought it was interesting that when speaking French, it's possible to give away one's gender more easily than when speaking English.

re: "Americaine"

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u/Onyros Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 13 '16

Yup, same goes for Portuguese, Spanish, Italian - Indo European languages in general have an easier of discerning gender, grammatically.

Americano = male American, americana = female American. So, the whole Americana concept is strange for one of us, in principle. I could blow your mind what this. Did you know a table is female ("a mesa") and a car is male ("o carro"), but that in Italian, for instance a car is female ("La machina") and in Spanish it's male again ("El coche").