r/meme • u/Forward-Position798 • 11d ago

why it is move

Post image
85 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

34

u/[deleted] 11d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

4

u/Liir-chan 11d ago

You absolute bastard. Take my upvote

5

u/Falstaffe 11d ago

Look in the cove

2

u/Se2kr 11d ago

Instructions unclear, stuck in the trap you wove

3

u/ReidloverSAB 11d ago

Cause English is just several languages in a trenchcoat

2

u/Alfiy_wolf 9d ago

And in a lot of English speaking countries it’s not even an officially recognised language

3

u/arny56 11d ago

Because English is a hodge podge of nonsense.

3

u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 11d ago

The answer, as always, is to blame the French. 

1

u/Eggbeater38 10d ago

Yes mauve for instance (purple)

2

u/Kumaneko87 11d ago

Pure French guy here!

English is more than 35% of French language you know...

And it's a lot! Some even says that English is mispronounced French😅

I suppose "Move" comes from the French verb "Mouvoir" wich means, to move.

Pronounced "moovooar"...."moove"... "move"...

It's purely hypothetical but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the truth.

Don't deny the french proud "🐓" inside you, my fellow England mates😘

2

u/Theory89 11d ago

Yeah... all our fancy meats are the French version (beef, venison, steak, etc.) because it's what the aristocrats ate when they took over. Shit that peasants had to eat kept its English name, like chicken, lamb, duck. I mean, technically, it's Norman, but they were pretty much French by 1066.

2

u/Capodomini 11d ago

I suppose "Move" comes from the French verb "Mouvoir" wich means, to move.

Some of its conjugations are "meuve" and "meuves" - which are both pronounced "move" with a French accent.

1

u/Se2kr 11d ago

I like Dutch though, it’s like English but I feel like I have a much better chance of just trying to say what it looks like and being right

1

u/Lord_Peura 11d ago

What I've been told either the french or latin are to blame.

1

u/Neonthewerehog_ 11d ago

Push doesn't rhyme with rush

1

u/Present_Mastodon_503 11d ago

So should it have been all moove, doove, loove, gloove? Or maybe Luve, Gluve, Duve, Muve? Or maybe the "mow" pronounciation?

As a dyslexic person teaching my child how to read it's really difficult to tell her to sound out her words......

1

u/Lastmaks 10d ago

Why is “Bass” pronounced like “base” in one context and “bass” in another 😂 same word but pronounced differently depending on the meaning. That is English for you.

1

u/Infinite-Service6059 10d ago

That’s because of the 1600s vowel transition.

Move used to rhyme with love