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  • EthalistoSigh-Fi@quokk.auUniversal Translator
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    7 days ago

    Oh we definitely have tons of tautological names for places, France has a big history of different cultures mixing and old languages merging together. What I meant is we don’t tend to add nouns to describe things, like in “X river”, “Y mountain” or even “Z fruit”.


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    8 days ago

    Not sure if that’s specifically an English issue or if other language work the same way, but I do know that, in French, I would just say “le Sahara” and would only say “le désert du Sahara” if I’m talking to someone who really sucks at geography.

    Same for rivers, I would just say “l’Avon” unless I suspect my interlocutor doesn’t know it’s a river, in which case I would probably simply add “you know, the river in Great Britain”














  • EthalistoSigh-Fi@quokk.auhe tells it like it is
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    2 months ago

    A french YouTuber (Bolchegeek) calls that the Magneto syndrome : the writers make the bad guys make actually good points when criticizing the supposed “good guys”, but then proceed to completely discredit their character by making them do something obviously evil. He argued that it’s a way to pretend like you’re making a progressive movie that questions society, while still reinforcing the status quo, and to basically say “Don’t be fooled by those radicals, they may seem convincing but they’re actually just out for blood”