stonefruit

[tawdry meadow]

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[fathom cipher]

depends on how much of a pain your interlocutor is

spelling is (unfortunately) important to European French so I'd recommend learning them right

sometimes it really doesn't matter though, e.g. évènement/événement

[buoyant pawn]

a with accent aigu just isn't used, so it'd be understood but we'd know you're a foreigner

j'ai jamais vu événement perso

[fathom cipher]

oh yeah with A it's always À

[buoyant pawn]

ou alors ça m'a pas marqué

[fathom cipher]

c'est très commun

[queen path]

I mean, specifically with an "a", I already know the difference between all the e's

[buoyant pawn]

on le prononce évènement donc ça m'étonnerait de le voir

[fathom cipher]

so yeah if you use Á it's a giveaway that you're a foreigner, and could lead to people judging you for it

which is stupid but does happen

[buoyant pawn]

but no confusions

[fathom cipher]

ça dépend des gens

[fallow cradle]

Événement est l'écriture de base, évènement c'est avec les rectifications orthographiques de 1990, donc c'est beaucoup plus rare et t'as sûrement juste pas remarqué

Aigu is only used on the E in french, so on any other letter we should understand, though people will very likely point it out just about everytime you do

[queen path]

what about aigu on c

jk

[fathom cipher]

ć

[buoyant pawn]

no idea how to pronounce it lol

[queen path]

I know how because I use this letter in my language

[buoyant pawn]

a french person wouldn't

[fathom cipher]

tch

[queen path]

I'm better than the french then

anyway how do i close this thread so we stop treating it as anglais-francais 2

[buoyant pawn]

you don't

just let it die