Gaston Dorren - What Languages Don't Want You To Know

[@languageservices8723]

Very knowledgeable, informative and above all entertaining speaker. One of the best presentations at the entire conference.

[@irmalair1]

Entertaining and Informative! 🤣loved it!

[@novikmish]

Really interesting talk. Thanks for sharing.

[@Hamsterzilla1349]

Although the circumflex in "château" does have etymological value, its first purpose is actually phonological and indicates vowel length. The A in that case is slightly longer than a regular one as an effect of the phonetic reduction. It's more obvious in "âne" compared to the name Anne.

[@cosmiccomrade3108]

This guy is great!

[@TheMaskedUnicorn]

Just took a big swig of water before "I wouldn't want to traumatize any Americans" I died:)

[@dlwatib]

As an American: Thank you! We've seen nursing mothers before, but not nursing teenagers, and I'd really not want to have to look at that.

[@squaretriangle9208]

Now I understand why I find French so easy having learned Latin in school, the guy is funny and I guess there are not many wokes among polyglots otherwise he would have been cancelled And now I understand Macron, too😂😂😂

[@enoch8604]

Is he tensed or something?

[@Eruptor1000]

Why didn't we shit on the English language?

[@alexeltroll]

Lol he said exactly what I think about french.

[@marcusjager5304]

Terribly nervous speaker.

[@chetosco]

A bunch of boring deeply rooted bullshit. Not a single word about the Kartvelian origin of the world's etymologies. French - Gaelic, blablabla... What about the Basque endings in every second French toponym? Don't waste your time.