En français s'il vous plaît !
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How do you say, "downvote"?
Le downvote
We say "basvote" and "hautvote". To upvote is translated as "posivoter"
Just say "Downvote". We don't do Fr*nch here.
Warning: Fr*nch words
If they are refusing to understand English, you can resort to saying "Vote négatif".
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Jay parlay France-says trey be-in. Jaytude in laycole quart anss. Jem mapple Peggy Hill. Common tally voo?
Parlez anglais où ta gueule 😡😡😡😡😡
Oui oui je parle beaucoup de Français mon amour 🥰
Macron sur le canapé est très chaud 😳
Ton langue est pour la poubelle 🤨
Oui oui, beaucoup de Français
Disclaimer: I do not take any responsibility for whatever random stuff I say in french
Want to get petty? My country still holds a grudge because we married a princess of ours with our neighbouring country king, while they sent one theirs to marry with our king (so, for all practical purpouses, a hostage exchange).
The only problem with it, was that our princess was gourgeous, while the princess sent here was ugly as stormy night.
To this day, we still have a coloquial expression of despize where we literally say we gave sardine in return of hake.
My country has sardine as a high value fish, since ever.
Are you talking about Joanna la Beltraneja from Spain and Isabella I of Castile and the 1479 aftermath of the war of the Castilian Succession?
She was our princess. Can't recall the spanish but she was known for being less than attractive.
Ethnocentrism, ftw
Hating people based on how they're born: 🤢
Hating people because of the objectively inferior clothes they wear and inferior food they eat: 😊
Venn Diagram: 🇬🇧
We also hate people based on social class and what they call a bread roll
Based to base on basis.
Don't forget religion and "whiteness" too!
To be fair it is (was) actually racism by all definitions since French Canadians were not considered white until the seventies/eighties.
Same 🇨🇭
Fucking Fr*nch language polluting so many beautiful countries. The entirety of NATO too.
If the summit is hosted in London, why write "Londres" too? We wouldn't write "Paris/Paříž" just because one idiotic language has a different spelling. Some are even more stupid, such as "Venezia/Benátky". And yes, I'm bashing on my own language but we are not nearly as entitled.
French and English are the two official languages of Nato
And what? I hate the Fr*nch language in Fr*nce, Canada and Switzerland too. All the frog-eating sounds and useless silent letters aside, the reason I hate its place in NATO especially is because the Fr*nch have requested special treatment despite being surrender-prone traitors who whined and almost left. Unlike Canada and Switzerland, NATO does not have a Fr*nch-speaking population significant enough to warrant special treatment. They are absolutely capable of understanding "NATO" and "London" like everyone else, they only request "OTAN" and "Londres" underneath because they're whiny bitches. You might as well give it to every official language of a NATO country, which is what I did in this graphic I made of a "fair" NATO logo where everyone gets to be equally entitled as the Fr*nch:
| Acronym | Title | Language/Country |
|---|---|---|
| ОСАД | Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор | bg Bulgarian 🇧🇬 |
| ОСАД | Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор | mk Macedonian 🇲🇰 |
| SAA | Severoatlantická aliance | cs Czech 🇨🇿 |
| NATO | Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation | da Danish 🇩🇰 |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | en English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦 |
| Nato | Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon | no Norwegian 🇳🇴 |
| ONAV | Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags | de German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪 |
| ΟΒΑΣ | Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου | el Greek 🇬🇷 |
| OTAN | Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte | es Spanish 🇪🇸 |
| OTAN | Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord | fr Fr*nch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪 |
| OTAN | Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord | it Italian 🇮🇹 |
| OTAN | Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte | pt Portugese 🇵🇹 |
| OTAN | Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord | ro Romanian 🇷🇴 |
| PALO | Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon | et Estonian 🇪🇪 |
| PAPL | Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto | fi Finnish 🇫🇮 |
| ÉASzSz | Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete | hu Hungarian 🇭🇺 |
| AB | Atlantshafsbandalagið | is Icelandic 🇮🇸 |
| ONAT | Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité | lb Luxembourgish 🇱🇺 |
| ŠASO | Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija | lt Lithuanian 🇱🇹 |
| ZALO | Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija | lv Latvian 🇱🇻 |
| OSAS | Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma | me Montenegrin 🇲🇪 |
| OSAS | Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma | sh Croatian 🇭🇷 |
| NAVO | Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie | nl Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪 |
| OTPA | Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego | pl Polish 🇵🇱 |
| DAB | Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu | se North Sámi 🇳🇴 |
| OSAZ | Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy | sk Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿 |
| SAPO | Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija | sl Slovene 🇸🇮 |
| OTAV | Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior | sq Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰 |
| NAFO | Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen | sv Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮 |
| KAAÖ | Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü | tr Turkish 🇹🇷 |
Do you get it now how ridiculous pushing multiple languages in the front can get? I'm all for acceptance of race and culture but huge multinational organizations should either pick one language or bear the difficulty of using all of them.
Oh sorry, I thought we were having an adult conversation without insulting countries. Sorry you hate the French. You must be full of joy.
whined and almost left
This is called "havinge le backbone" in France, you should try it.
French is an international language, and also, is the language of international jurisprudence, which more that warrants it's use as a OTAN official language.
French has been the lingua franca of the world for years and still maintains that position in many serious environments, whereas english is more popular
I should say, they, unlike you, are entitled to being entitled.
In the end, their language is used, and yours is not.
They are perfectly capable of understanding "NATO" and "London", just as Czechs are perfectly capable of understanding "Venezia". They can use their own words but no need to shove more than 1 language in people's faces. And yes, I accept that the "1 language" can be French in organizations in mostly-francophonic places like Geneva and Montreal.
I can keep track of more than one word perfectly fine.
Why do you only want one language?
It's practical to have just one for internal affairs, and it corresponds to the reality of the (especially North Western) world. English is the diplomatic language now and I can't see a justification for the trouble of maintaining another as official in an organization, even those I like more (German ❤) or speak better (Czech). Yes, the French were "entitled to be entitled" in the 19th century but not really after 1940 and 1958.
In my experience, people that don't like how German sounds can't understand it. Once I started learning it, I found it to be quite pleasant.
I believe this is the reason why you don't like French, despite the fact it is a very beautiful language: you don't speak it.
French is the international language of jurisprudence, hardly irrelevant. I quite like German myself, but that is hardly a reason to stop using French.
Ach komm...
“What the hell is everyone laughing aboot?”
Liège.... Oh no. No no no... What have you done liège? Why did you? I showed my wife all of the beautiful cities in Flanders. Then I said. Hey, let's go to wallonia.
Liège.... Why? What is the reason? Why must you suck out the souls of any resident? Dystopia. The most beautiful part is the river. Because that's the only part where cars cannot go.
Why, liège?
Still better than Charleroi
If she pisses me off, then we go to Charleroi 👍🏻