Plus Some Extra Descriptive Wine Words for My Francophile Wine Nerds
could you do the pronunciation with a "tipsy accent"? It would help for future "dégustations".
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Bonjour Karen, thank you for your valuable & fun articles!
Not to mention your very kind words!!!
Warm regards
Judy
Always a pleasure to collaborate with you!
Really helpful Karen… it’s not easy.
Every time I'm on the autoroute with my husband I try to create logic around all the names I'm seeing on the exit signs but my conclusion: in the end it's just "if you know, you know" ha! Zéro logique quoi. :-)
French was not build by logic, but under the influence of a lot of different languages (celtic, latin, germanic ...). Even under the rule of language homogenization (p.e. Villers-Cotterêts 1539 ...) the aspects of the old languages are still visible in modern french (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/u7ytwo/all_the_dialects_of_french_and_languages_in_france/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
If you see p.e. that rivers in France have genders and often the origin of the rivers name (celt, latin ...) determine the gender of the river (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6mfcgq/genders_of_the_main_rivers_of_france_oc_960x902/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Also the toponymie of french cities is strongly influenced by language and history (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5aidc6/oc_some_common_endings_of_french_commune_names/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). Here p.e. you see the influence of norse names in Normandie. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/fzfpz0/suffixes_in_french_city_names_hq_in_comments/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
🙌🏻 🥇 🍾 « Reims » 😂
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymie_fran%C3%A7aise
https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/k0plzx/position_des_communes_en_fonction_du_suffixe_de/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
could you do the pronunciation with a "tipsy accent"? It would help for future "dégustations".
😂
Bonjour Karen, thank you for your valuable & fun articles!
Not to mention your very kind words!!!
Warm regards
Judy
Always a pleasure to collaborate with you!
Really helpful Karen… it’s not easy.
Every time I'm on the autoroute with my husband I try to create logic around all the names I'm seeing on the exit signs but my conclusion: in the end it's just "if you know, you know" ha! Zéro logique quoi. :-)
French was not build by logic, but under the influence of a lot of different languages (celtic, latin, germanic ...). Even under the rule of language homogenization (p.e. Villers-Cotterêts 1539 ...) the aspects of the old languages are still visible in modern french (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/u7ytwo/all_the_dialects_of_french_and_languages_in_france/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
If you see p.e. that rivers in France have genders and often the origin of the rivers name (celt, latin ...) determine the gender of the river (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/6mfcgq/genders_of_the_main_rivers_of_france_oc_960x902/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Also the toponymie of french cities is strongly influenced by language and history (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/5aidc6/oc_some_common_endings_of_french_commune_names/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). Here p.e. you see the influence of norse names in Normandie. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/fzfpz0/suffixes_in_french_city_names_hq_in_comments/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
🙌🏻 🥇 🍾 « Reims » 😂
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymie_fran%C3%A7aise
https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/k0plzx/position_des_communes_en_fonction_du_suffixe_de/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button