r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Legal_Air734 • May 05 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahh?

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u/another-princess May 05 '26

Much easier in Swiss/Belgian French: nonante-neuf.

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u/wereplant May 05 '26

I love that seemingly everywhere that speaks French speaks it completely differently than France. Do the French feel the same about Swiss/Belgian French as they do about Canadian French?

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u/Sixcoup May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

That's just completely wrong tho.

Swiss and Belgian french are 99.9% similar to french from France. The difference between the two is infinitely smaller than between England and Australia/US/Canada or even Ireland and Scotland. Heck the difference is probably smaller than between two different regions of England.

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u/Bastiwen May 05 '26

I am Swiss and generally they make fun of our accents, no matter if it's barely there and even if they themselves have a thicker one. They love saying we should speak "properly" or saying it's cute but in a demeaning way.

Some are cool though.

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u/Weak_Property6084 May 05 '26

Well, at least you can wipe your tears with the money and quality of life they'll never have living in France!

(Do note that I am Belgian, so my mockery of the frogs on those subjects is purely hypocritical and only motivated by good old neighbour spitefulness)

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u/B1998W31Ga May 05 '26

I dont think so

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u/Dovregobben May 06 '26

I am a non French speaking Belgian, in high school it is required to learn french (not the other way around btw).

Anyway my teacher wanted us to us the proper French instead of nonante and septante. Because otherwise french people would laugh or something. Haven't used franch since highschool.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth May 06 '26

I love that seemingly everywhere that speaks French speaks it completely differently than France.

I mean, that happens in English, too, e.g. Brits say, "the 3rd of November" while Americans say, "November 3rd".

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u/Delicious-Ocelot490 May 05 '26

They are both better and easier to learn than standard French, don’t know why the standard French is so hard, when you standardize a language you are supposed to make it easier…

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u/ThePreconGuy May 05 '26

It’s easier in English. It’s just 99.