Has any nation underachieved more than this one?
Has any nation underachieved more than this one?
Anthony Phillips
Camden Harris
What do you mean? France is the most glorious nation on earth.
Chase Peterson
Why did you add France into Belgium (UK)
David Sanders
No, it should have been the most glorious nation on earth... we should all be speaking French, and yet...
Jacob Reyes
UK has underperformed
Thry are a fucking island with no enemies bordering them, it should have been the closest thing to utopia but they failed massively, put nordics, germanic countries on that island instead of english and it would be by far the best country in the world
Lincoln Roberts
Jesus bongoloids are obsessed.
Colton Thomas
It maybe under-performed a bit, but still is the protagonist of history.
The villain in the story (anglos) always seem to have the upper hand up to the final victory of the protagonist.
Isaac Sanchez
Italy for sure.
Wyatt King
>we should all be speaking French
French was the international Lingua Franca untill the 60s, that's why it is called Lingua Franca.
Michael Jenkins
Je voudrais n'être pas Français pour pouvoir dire
Que je te choisis, France, et que, dans ton martyre,
Je te proclame, toi que ronge le vautour,
Ma patrie et ma gloire et mon unique amour !
Juan Moore
The UK contributes more to world culture in a decade than the your swamp has done in its entire history
Benjamin Stewart
not true
Logan Stewart
No worries bro
Nathaniel Cruz
>France is the most glorious nation on earth.
Luke Gray
ah the bong feels attacked so he has to call a very small country on continental europe less influental than his isolated island, so sad.... my first post told the truth though
Julian Jones
I'm not even british but your country is an insufferable nafri wasteland full of wankers
Landon Robinson
>countries smaller than texas argue amongst each other for who is the least irrelevant
Luis Wilson
kek
Juan Gray
t.Mart-Sharter
Michael Ross
Half the English language is of French origin.
Adam Jones
Nope.
David Brown
>derived from proper names
Like hamburgers coming from Hamburg?
Cooper King
Weren't most the latin words introduced by the French as well?
Probably Greek too..
Connor Butler
Even some Germanic words were introduced by us, like warden or the name William
Samuel Hill
Latin was the scholar language of Europe before french became important. It was also the language of the catholic church.
It's interesting that the english hate the french, but they praise them so ssurreptitiously in their language. If you were to use english words of latin origin you would sound much more sophisticated than with germanic words
Liam Harris
> Latin
Obviously introduced by the French retard g*rm
Connor Perry
Why do we call him Guillaume then?
If my memory serves me right, you might want to check how the English nobility has been replaced with French twice in history. A lot of this differenciation you mention, between sophisticated words and the native gibberish, comes from there.
Daniel Morris
Probably. It's probably true after all.
Liam Cruz
>Why do we call him Guillaume then?
Typical w -> g sound shift. His name in Norman was likely Willame.
Justin Williams
Yes, indeed. It all goes back to William conquering England in 1066.
One clear example of that differenciation which has a term but still to this day i can't remember, is beef-poultry-pork vs cow-chicken-pig or swine. The first group are names for the food from the animals, because the french nobility would only be in contact with the food in their plate, and o they used french names for the food.The english peasantry would be in contact with the animals so they would use germanic names for the animals.
Asher Rogers
>beef-poultry-pork
It's amazing how those words remained extremely close to their French counterparts over the centuries, namely "boeuf", "poule" and "porc".