Comments by "Northern Chimp" (@NorthernChimp) on "How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH (3 clever tricks)" video.

  1. I have several French dictionnaries, but my best source of remarkable vocabulary and French forgotten jokes is a 2 vol. Oxford English one.
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  2. Interesting. Do you say things like 'carguer' instead of 'charger'?
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  3. In this use, it's actually an adaptation of Occitan 'Còstas de Ròse', the French word for that is rather 'côteau'.
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  4.  @HalfdanRekkirsson  It's Occitan, the language spoken in the southern half of France. Even when speaking French, southerners say «la côte» instead of «la pente» for "the slope". So I think «Côtes du Rhône» refer to the slopes over the the river, where the vines are planted, like the word «coteaux». (In Occitan, the Rhone is called "Rone" (rrooneh) on it's west bank and "Ròse" (rrohzeh) on it's east bank. And my bad, rivers have proper names, so it's "Còstas dau *de Ròse" 🦱)
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  5. Because the vowel is long, to fill up the space left by the lost consonant. *But in the South of France, where French isn't native, the vowel system is simplified.
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  6.  Yvon Q.  Let's put things in order. 1) Celtic languages are two groups: i) Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Irish) ii) Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish, and Breton). Breton is not Gaelic. 2) Just as there is Scots in Southern Scotland, there is Gallo in Eastern Bittany. It has a few differences from standard French, like saying Be'rtagne instead of Bretagne. 3) Yes, Gallo is older in Brittany than Celtic Breton! It originates, like French and Occitan, from the Roman colonisation of Celtic Speakers; Breton came later with *Welsh refugees fleeing the Saxons. (It's been suggested, though, that the Breton dialect of Gwened (fr. Vannes), which is different from others, might be a survival of continental Gaulish.)
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  7.  Yvon Q.  Let's see. please detail. Because to me, you seem wrong on all the line, or maybe into some WP:FRINGE theory I don't know about (and would be glad to learn:)
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  8. In Occitan, lop (pronounced lup), lòc, taur and auzit are exactly the same (not tardiu - slow, late though). With the accent of Nissa (fr. Nice) 'lenga nòstra' is pronounced exactly 'lengă noastră' :)
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  9. Anglais *Vieil langaige françois!
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  10. Your teacher was probably not a bad one, it's the French teaching tradition that is quite counter-productive.
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  11. But the change from ca- to cha- didn't spread to the three northern dialects: Belgian Wallon, Picard, and William's Normand. Hence the two layers in English.
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  12. And the Cot is not grown on the Côtes-du Rhône... :)
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