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e.g. "(j')aime / (tu) aimes / (il) aime (nous) aimons / (vous) aimez / (ils) aiment" -- pronounced "aime/aime/aime/aimon/aimé". ~600 years ago, you'd have pronounced it like you spelled it, making it sound quite close to the original latin amo/amas/amat/amamus/amatis/amant
Think about it whenever you find yourself cursing silent word endings -- they weren't always silent. All of these oddities are there for a reason. Still, at this point it would make a lot of sense to reform French spelling...
I am wondering how those silent words could affect meaning in other cases or types of words? The cursing example is a great starting point and the evolution would be interesting to study.
It's the same thing with English. Spelled like Chaucer's English was pronounced when the printing press arrived in England and the spelling mostly froze in place.
This is also true of English - for example, ‘knight’ was once pronounced to rhyme with the German ‘nicht’. Plus we have plenty of French loan-words where we improved the pronunciation.
"improved"
I would any day learn French or German over English! English is just full of exceptions.
Wow. Je savais pas :-)
Expanding brain (I like that meme): Let's unify all languages using the Latin alphabet into Latin and bring it to a glory no language has ever known! Why does everybody need to learn so many languages when everybody can learn just one?
Yes. Also all the silent letters in masculin vs féminin (petit/petite). But I found it hard to teach my kids (we live in England) to read French as they read every letters. (On top of un/ain... and co with same sound)
In English, some original pronunciations are preserved in US English that got lost in British English e.g. Edinburgh used to be pronounced like Pittsburgh is now. Though nothing will ever explain how Irish words are pronounced the word for face ‘aghaidh’ is pronounced ‘aig’.
ok, good luck with reforming French spelling!
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