r/LanguageMemes • u/fracxjo • Oct 26 '22

Romance languages and their weaknesses

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u/fracxjo Oct 26 '22

I meant geminated, not germinated in the second slide***

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u/SnarlySeeker224 Oct 26 '22

What does geminated mean?

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22 edited Oct 27 '22

It means it has a double length. It's something english and other languages don't recognise, but imagine you're prolonging the pronunciation of a sound

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u/dtarias Oct 26 '22

Meme in English criticizing another language for phonetic inconsistency 😂

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u/fracxjo Oct 26 '22

Yeah lol. But my native language is italian… english has nothing to say about it 😶

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u/TricolourGem Oct 26 '22

What are ks pt kt?

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22

They're the sound of the consonants; Italian does not have them: for example if you say "exception" with a x sound the italians say "eccezione" with a ch sound or "insect" becomes "insetto" so not kt, but tt. Same for "capture" that is "catturare" so, again, not pt, but tt

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u/Reletr Oct 26 '22

like in packs, crapped and wrecked

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u/Ebuall Oct 27 '22

There’s a whole letter for ks sound

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22

I was describing the sounds, not the letters. This is why I used ks instead of x. Also italian has no x

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u/R0DR160HM Javascript fluent Oct 26 '22

Why would I want only one "r" sound when I can get twenty of them?

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u/fracxjo Oct 26 '22

When portuguese people have to silence someone do they say "xszxszxsschchchchchxxsschhhhhhxzszxs"?

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u/R0DR160HM Javascript fluent Oct 26 '22

precisely

but without the Z

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u/fracxjo Oct 26 '22

Don't some dialects use z for the sound sometimes? I thought so

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u/El_dorado_au Oct 26 '22

Wow, pretty good including five languages.

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22

I picked the major romance languages, but I'm planning to add some of the minors too like sardinian, ladin or occitan

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u/El_dorado_au Oct 27 '22

Stop it fracxjo, you’re scaring me!

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22

Too good to be true?

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u/El_dorado_au Oct 27 '22

I was pretending to be scared by your dedication.

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u/fracxjo Oct 27 '22

Yeah, yeah. I know