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And now a few slurs! As a general rule, do not use the following words. Racial slurs Nègre Nègre is of course "nigger". Very much taboo nowadays. Some Black authors such as Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor tried to reclaim it, but it never really worked. Sidenote: speaking only for myself here...

Well, I don't claim to have made a comprehensive lexicon. But I've added your suggestions.

I could add some slurs, too.

Swearing in (Parisian) French For everyone who wants to jurer comme un charretier (literally "swear like a wagoner"), here is a primer on swearing in Parisian French. (Remember that swearing in Québec French is very different!) Overview Compared to English-speaking folks, the French use very little...

Isn't this equally true of verbs derived from the same stems, e.g. parvînmes , soutînmes ? You're right, I had forgotten about them. My sentence should have been "The verbs vînmes , tînmes and other verbs derived from them are the only words where a nasal vowel is followed by a coda nasal consonant...

Our concert last Thursday (in a café) went pretty well. We did a few false notes, and I sang out of key once or twice... but we rocked the house down! Oh, and we won the "original song contest". The host asked every band to present at least one original song. But in the end, most bands only played c...

I agree with everything Sumelic wrote. Nasal vowels are rarely followed by a nasal consonant. The words vînmes and tînmes are indeed, to my knowledge, the only words when this happens for a coda nasal. I also think they're the only ones to have a circumflexed nasal vowel (the circumflex is only here...

I think I've noticed something interesting with some American accents. I first noticed it when watching Breaking Bad , particularly with Anna Gunn. What I hear is that she has [ɑː] in most THOUGHT words: thought, talk, law are |θɑːt, tʰɑːk, lɑː], i.e. the typical low-back merger. But I think I heard...

Some examples from English to French.

"goal": goalkeeper in soccer
"puzzle": jigsaw puzzle
"buzz": widespread rumor, hype
"people": celebrity

My band is on a roll! We're surely going to be ready for our concert on May 18!

The candidate I voted for won. On the other hand, the reasons that drove people to vote for the far right haven't gone away, and the new president is going to have an awfully hard time juggling everything.

Vijay wrote:I wonder whether that's yet another cognate with Portuguese gozar, which means 'to cum' among other things, in addition to native jouir and borrowed gaudir.

Probably not: goder comes from gode which is short from godemiché (dildo).

I think it depends on context. If it's very clear from context that you mean "a party", I guess it can be alright. If you call a person "bamboula", then it's a racial slur.

I've just learned the word "shindig".

Tienes razón. Pero, pienso que correcciones de estilo pueden agobiar a alguién que no habla el idioma muy bien. Prefiero centrarme con cosas que son incorrectas sin duda. You're right. But I think that stylistic corrections can be overwhelming to someone who doesn't speak the language very well yet...

Lo siento, Viktor, pero tres de tus correcciones no son correctas. Entschuldigung, Viktor, aber drei von deine Verbesserungen sind nicht korrekt. Sorry, Viktor, but three of your correction aren't quite correct. Oui, les charbon mineurs de fond Why did you change coal miners to mineurs de fond ? Mi...

Travis B. wrote:flapping combined with non-rhoticity.

I would do this, but only when I'm singing.

I wonder if it could've been influenced by beau (and its compounds, e.g. beaucoup ) Huh, I didn't know that beaucoup derived from beau . It's obvious in retrospect, but I had never considered the etymology of beaucoup . Incidentally, I had to learn (a few years ago) that in French, moult was suppos...

I just bought a new guitar amp. That was totally unplanned, I just ran into an opportunity. On the one hand, it sounds awesome. On the other, I don't really need a new amp, and this one has no headphone socket.

I listened to Let it Bleed again yesterday. Still one of the greatest rock albums ever. Gives me goosebumps from start to finish.

Name a planet. The Earth. Name a famous spoiler. Bruce Willis is dead from the beginning of Sixth Sense . License to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in _____. Florida. Who is the rightful King of Jerusalem by legal inheritance from the crusader state? The Queen of England. Name the language this wor...

Four in French: The Jerusalem Bible , a Catholic Bible. My go-to Bible when I just want to read, the one I've read from start to finish (though it took me five years). This edition adds titles and subtitles, and sometimes makes breaks at places other than the traditional chapters: that makes the str...

I now own six different versions of the Bible, and three versions of the Quran. Pretty weird for an atheist.

Standard Pop Accent I'm an occasional singer in a rock band. Being a non-native speaker, I wanted to make my pronunciation a bit more "orderly", by adopting a precise accent as a target. So I ended up creating my own, that I call (a bit pretentiously) the Standard Pop Accent . It's not very origina...

@Ryusenshi: Well, I already knew you were a French speaker before listening, and I also read previous people's comments, so both of those may have biased me. That said, I did hear a bit of "sing-songiness" in the first recording, and I heard more of a French accent in the second. I am an American E...

I couldn't tell you were French from the first one, only that you were non-native. (As someone else said, the intonation is wildly off.) But I heard it right away in the second version. Thanks for the feedback. I guess I was focusing too much on the vowels, and screwed up the overall intonation. At...

I don't think you two are talking about the same phenomenon. What linguoboy mentions (['jɛsːə] for yes ) does sound like Southern French. Again, Southern French speakers tend to pronounce all "e muets", and even sometimes add a schwa to break consonant clusters. For instance, in Marseilles, pneu bec...