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[wispy socket]

@brazen edge
Well what are you trying to speak

Nobody actually speaks standard French

Anyway if you don’t merge them and you’re in Europe it’ll probably sound either regional or archaic

[brazen edge]

so its not a common feature?

[wispy socket]

In North America it is

And Switzerland

Maybe Belgium

But it’d sound oddly regional or archaic imo if you were in Paris making the distinction

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I don't peau pot distinction, and the un, in distinction. Would it be "incompatible" if I don't use the ait, ai distinction? Would it be like using a old dialect pronunciation with a recent dialect.

[wispy socket]

Damn peau pot

[brazen edge]

haha ok

*I don't

[wispy socket]

Afaik only the Swiss do that now

Oh

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sorry typo

I don't peau pot distinction, and the un, in distinction. Would it be "incompatible" if I use the ait, ai distinction? Would it be like using a old dialect pronunciation with a recent dialect.

[wispy socket]

Not really cause barely any dialect makes the peau pot distinction now and there are dialects with in-un merger but patte-pâte distinction I think

Although iirc they don’t always pronounce â as x/A/ but rather as /a:/

[brazen edge]

can i just use /a/ with no lengthing?

do some dialects do that

[wispy socket]

What’s even the ait ai distinction is it x/E/ vs /e/

[brazen edge]

è with ait/ais but é for -ai as in parlerait vs parlerai

[wispy socket]

Most speakers in France do that and I think it’s increasingly common in other Francophone European countries too

[wispy socket]

Yeah no it’s fine a lot of people do that distinction and not pot peau and brun brin

[brazen edge]

haha ok thanks!

[wispy socket]

No problem

[wispy socket]

Don’t take my words as proofs tho we’d need a French person to really confirm

I’m from Quebec

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ah

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Flynn what do you think?