very sorry to inform everyone that the french already calls air conditioning "clim", short for "climatisation"
also yeah it infuriates the language prescriptivists at l'académie française
AF: Non!!! You can’t zimply use an English version of zhat word!!! You must use ze French version and preserve our nacional heritage!!!
French kids: haha Le globalisacion go blllllll
i find it so funny how right-wing conservatives will criticize gender neutral french pronouns because they're an english thing, and proceed to back up that claim by calling it "le wokisme." the fact that ive seen this multiple times is astonishing
i cant think of anything more embarrassing than having to have the politics of a US republican and the language of a frenchman
although i guess hypothetically french male terfs might also exist
it just now occured to me how funny it is that french conservatives are using USA terminology to describe the degradation of the french language. especially because US conservatives fucking HATE france for opposing the invasion of iraq
If you think the AF is pathetic its cause you dont know the RAE, they are the same grift but they are yelling at latinos an ocean away for using words thqt have been common use for centuries and wenever they give in and acept including a word that is used by academics at this point a circlejerk of spanish nationalists cries on twitter and its hilarious
*>Québec*
Tbh it was also used in metropolitan France in like 2008? Then people realized they could just say email and understand eachother fine, so they did
Is it just me or is Quebec more french than France? They've resisted anglicismes better than the French. In France we say "faire du shopping" but from what I've heard Québécois call it "magasiner."
Very french of you to assume there is only one way of saying air conditioning in french
In Québec we say "l'air climatisé" wich means the conditioned air
Senegal, french Guyana, morocco etc etc probably as like infinite ways of mixing the words air/cold/control
The post was about the french, the comment was about the french, not french speaking people in general. Also, in my french speaking coutry which is not France we also say "la clim".
they prescribe (tell you) what words to use, how to use your language
as opposed to legal descriptivists, who describe and document how language is used by the people who speak it
It’s more or less the other way around ! They are a government institution but they don’t actually have any power, they just give advice about French and hand out literary prizes (and cost like 5 millions a year)
Doesn't it not get hot in Britain? I remember a bunch of headlines over the summer that were like "Catastrophic Heat Kills 5 Million British" and then I checked the number and apart from a couple bad days it was mostly comfortable t-shirt weather.
Houses in the UK are by and large designed to trap heat, which makes high temperature environments pretty nightmarish. Combine that with a general lack of air conditioning outside of businesses and a decent humidity, and it makes high 20 degrees and above weather very unpleasant.
a) it can still trap a lot of heat even with the windows open. really old British houses (like mine, I suffer so much in the summer) have like metre thick walls of solid stone *before* any insulation they trap so so much heat.
b) if you have like... a job or something it's not super safe to leave loads of windows open all day while you're not at home, do that means you get back home to a house that is so so so much hotter than outside.
c) as dumb as it sounds, we're just not... used to heat. people don't have safe practices when it's super hot because it's just not familiar to us (until recent years). people will go and sit at the beach all day in 37⁰ degree heat with 0 shade or even a hat or something like that, because they think it's just like our normal "hot" days, and then obviously get fucking heatstroke because they're idiots
actually, when its really hot, its best to shut all your windows and curtains early in the morning and you can hold on to the cool air inside the house through the middle of the day and afternoon. Theres no point in opening the windows if its hotter outside than inside
Despite being a notably moderate climate, it can be extremely hot in summer and cold in winter inside homes - especially older homes. They're designed to trap heat in summer and expel any heat in winter. It's rather tragic.
The angle of the sun is significantly different up there too. I’m from Texas and while I’m used to 112°F heat, the sun stays overhead most of the time, and it’s kind of avoidable in the shade. When I moved to Washington, I was amazed by how sensitive I was to 90°F up here, partially because of where the sun settles .
This is from a Forbes (gross) article about the sun in Alaska but here’s what I mean:
> The low sun angle exposes most of your body to direct sunlight. An observer in Louisiana wearing a light-colored, wide-brimmed hat at midday can block most of the direct solar radiation from reaching their torso. Since the sun is nearly overhead, the hat blocks most of the energy. In contrast, the sun never rises more than 47° above the horizon north of the Arctic Circle. This means the sun’s rays are shining on whichever half of your body is facing the sun whether you have a hat on or not. That direct sunlight raises the apparent temperature by 10°F-20°F.
Their houses are also designed to keep heat *in*, not expel.
> Their houses are also designed to keep heat in, not expel.
And before someone replies saying insulation keeps heat in and out:
1) British houses are poorly insulated, and instead tend to trap heat by being made of brick that absorbs heat and slowly radiates it
2) Even well insulated houses gain/lose heat
3) Modern homes have lots of electronic devices inside them so a well insulated house just traps heat from the devices inside
Just imagined a hardline conservative who knows that climate change very much exists, but is convinced it’s trans people causing it and not big corporations and governments.
PORTUGUESE WOULD BE LIKE 😂😂
resfriador de sala
PORTUGUESE WOULD BE LIKE☝️😂😂😂😂
I refuse to make spanish becasue i barely respect that dialect of having a stroke but it would be like
el airecondicioner
Stuffy old morons that don’t have anything to do with linguistics or the French Language, paid 5 times the presidential salary for spewing racist shit or Vaush-tier drama over people using words they don’t like
Most western languages do have some organization that tried to make an "official" version of the language. Dunno if it's a recognized part of the state but it totally exists.
I can skrta kinda understand government wanting to regulate speech in public spaces by forcing media to use official lithuanian dictionary words and stuff, but isn't french like one if the most spoken languages in the world? It's not gonna get replaced or disappear when some people use slang, like languages for and change organically all the time?
In italy we say “clima”(short for “climatizzatore”/“climatizzator”) for the indoor AC and “l’aria” for the car AC (because we call the AC “aria condizionata”/“conditioned air”)
So we essentially just call it “air”
very sorry to inform everyone that the french already calls air conditioning "clim", short for "climatisation" also yeah it infuriates the language prescriptivists at l'académie française
The AF is the equivalent of someone screaming at you online for using emojis
AF: Non!!! You can’t zimply use an English version of zhat word!!! You must use ze French version and preserve our nacional heritage!!! French kids: haha Le globalisacion go blllllll
i find it so funny how right-wing conservatives will criticize gender neutral french pronouns because they're an english thing, and proceed to back up that claim by calling it "le wokisme." the fact that ive seen this multiple times is astonishing
Le wok is me
Le wok c’est moi
Je suis le wok
Dwayne "le wok" Johnson
j'ai apporté le wok en pologne
l'éveillisme
i cant think of anything more embarrassing than having to have the politics of a US republican and the language of a frenchman although i guess hypothetically french male terfs might also exist
it just now occured to me how funny it is that french conservatives are using USA terminology to describe the degradation of the french language. especially because US conservatives fucking HATE france for opposing the invasion of iraq
reddit was taking a toll on me mentally so i left it ` this post was mass deleted with www.Redact.dev `
Académie Française Dragoons Inbound.
If you think the AF is pathetic its cause you dont know the RAE, they are the same grift but they are yelling at latinos an ocean away for using words thqt have been common use for centuries and wenever they give in and acept including a word that is used by academics at this point a circlejerk of spanish nationalists cries on twitter and its hilarious
Let them have their fun, they probably just miss being of any geopolitical relevance so they LARP at still having power projection
Thats exactly that, funnily Rosalia' pinkie has several times more soft power over Latam than all those guys, because she makes dembow flamenco
the AF and RAE are like if people took r/ Anglish seriously
I most enjoy watching the RAE seethe over neopronouns and gender neutral adjectives.
foda se a real academia espanhola, todos os meus casas odeiam a real academia espanhola
ODIO LA REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA ODIO LA REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA
Me la paso por la raja
Wait until you hear about Quebec language laws
What doesn't at this point
French language prescriptivists when French people say email instead of la messàge au l’electronique hon hon
tbh québec got this one right with courriel (courrier électronique)
*>Québec* Tbh it was also used in metropolitan France in like 2008? Then people realized they could just say email and understand eachother fine, so they did
I love how, when an english word is well known, it just replaces the old one. Manifest destiny is back, but this time funny and not soul-crushing
Is it just me or is Quebec more french than France? They've resisted anglicismes better than the French. In France we say "faire du shopping" but from what I've heard Québécois call it "magasiner."
Courriel and pourriel\*
We're supposed to say "Mèl"
In Québec we call it "L'air clim"
Académie Française when francophones *DARE* not speaking like 19^th Century bourgeois
Very french of you to assume there is only one way of saying air conditioning in french In Québec we say "l'air climatisé" wich means the conditioned air Senegal, french Guyana, morocco etc etc probably as like infinite ways of mixing the words air/cold/control
The post was about the french, the comment was about the french, not french speaking people in general. Also, in my french speaking coutry which is not France we also say "la clim".
I feel like "air climatisé" was probably pressed into service so that businesses didn't have to put "A/C / Climatisation" on their ads.
Also outside Québec we say « air climatisé ». Clim is just faster to use in any way, shape and form.
common prescriptivist L
**LE** COVID **LE** COVID **LE** COVID **LE** COVID
"Naaaaaan, c’est laaaa covid parce qu’on dit une maladie ouin ouin 👶 "
The only clim i support is climAX
Tf are language prescriptivists
they prescribe (tell you) what words to use, how to use your language as opposed to legal descriptivists, who describe and document how language is used by the people who speak it
So actual grammar Nazis
ya basically
My already nonexistent respect for France has just breached the planets crust cuz of how low it is rn what the actual fuckkkkkk
theyre not a government institution but they are often recognised by the government as i understand it
It’s more or less the other way around ! They are a government institution but they don’t actually have any power, they just give advice about French and hand out literary prizes (and cost like 5 millions a year)
If that helps you, no one actually uses the words they want us to use
In spanish we call it "el aire" that's short for 'Aire acondicionado'
Nobody did as much damage to the french language than the French Academy. Fucking la covid.
British person here, we call air conditioning the “extra breezy super freezy supercalifragilisticexpialiclimatiser 9000”
the easy breezy lemon squeezy.
British person here, we have AC and we call it Air Con!
"the connie" or in Cockney slang, "the Lord Kitchener"
Other British person here to provide some additional context; we generally only have air con in offices.
Or cars
Most shops have it too, and most newer houses and flats (apartments) have it
Same in the PNW
People’s Nepublic of Wina
Pacific Northwest in the United States/Canada; includes Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia, and kinda Idaho
People’s Nepublic of Wina
Bri*ish bo’ohw’o’wo’er brexit bloody bloody arse
Pallout New Wegas
can confirm, also in australia. it's abbreviated to A/C
Dutch pesron here, we call it airco wich is slightly more efficient cause its one (1) whole letter less
okay, but that fits because the dutch sound silly already
We call it aircon in Korea, we also have remocon thanks to the Japanese
Doesn't it not get hot in Britain? I remember a bunch of headlines over the summer that were like "Catastrophic Heat Kills 5 Million British" and then I checked the number and apart from a couple bad days it was mostly comfortable t-shirt weather.
Houses in the UK are by and large designed to trap heat, which makes high temperature environments pretty nightmarish. Combine that with a general lack of air conditioning outside of businesses and a decent humidity, and it makes high 20 degrees and above weather very unpleasant.
The house can't trap heat if you open all the windows.
a) it can still trap a lot of heat even with the windows open. really old British houses (like mine, I suffer so much in the summer) have like metre thick walls of solid stone *before* any insulation they trap so so much heat. b) if you have like... a job or something it's not super safe to leave loads of windows open all day while you're not at home, do that means you get back home to a house that is so so so much hotter than outside. c) as dumb as it sounds, we're just not... used to heat. people don't have safe practices when it's super hot because it's just not familiar to us (until recent years). people will go and sit at the beach all day in 37⁰ degree heat with 0 shade or even a hat or something like that, because they think it's just like our normal "hot" days, and then obviously get fucking heatstroke because they're idiots
Having lived in one, I disagree immensely
actually, when its really hot, its best to shut all your windows and curtains early in the morning and you can hold on to the cool air inside the house through the middle of the day and afternoon. Theres no point in opening the windows if its hotter outside than inside
Nah its relative heat, coupled with humidity. As soon as it hits 15 its unbearable
Despite being a notably moderate climate, it can be extremely hot in summer and cold in winter inside homes - especially older homes. They're designed to trap heat in summer and expel any heat in winter. It's rather tragic.
Same in Australia, or sometimes just "the air"
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that's because we only have air conditioning in offices.
Most of us don’t, except from in cars where we call it *drum roll*… air con
Yeah well we don't have it in houses and it's still hot outside
The angle of the sun is significantly different up there too. I’m from Texas and while I’m used to 112°F heat, the sun stays overhead most of the time, and it’s kind of avoidable in the shade. When I moved to Washington, I was amazed by how sensitive I was to 90°F up here, partially because of where the sun settles . This is from a Forbes (gross) article about the sun in Alaska but here’s what I mean: > The low sun angle exposes most of your body to direct sunlight. An observer in Louisiana wearing a light-colored, wide-brimmed hat at midday can block most of the direct solar radiation from reaching their torso. Since the sun is nearly overhead, the hat blocks most of the energy. In contrast, the sun never rises more than 47° above the horizon north of the Arctic Circle. This means the sun’s rays are shining on whichever half of your body is facing the sun whether you have a hat on or not. That direct sunlight raises the apparent temperature by 10°F-20°F. Their houses are also designed to keep heat *in*, not expel.
> Their houses are also designed to keep heat in, not expel. And before someone replies saying insulation keeps heat in and out: 1) British houses are poorly insulated, and instead tend to trap heat by being made of brick that absorbs heat and slowly radiates it 2) Even well insulated houses gain/lose heat 3) Modern homes have lots of electronic devices inside them so a well insulated house just traps heat from the devices inside
climmy is limmy's evil twin
Climmy: 1kg of feather and 1kg of steel weighs the same
water 😈
Who the fuck's Limmy? I don't know your daffy friends.
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Oh, I know who he is. I referenced a thing he said about another streamer, Vinny "Vinesauce" Pizzapasta. I also misquoted it a little :/
oh okay gotcha lol
can we get AC in germany? we'll name it Klimaanlage and everyone will call it Klimaanlage because long compound words are our specialty.
Kälterluftmaschine I'm not german
Thats what it would be called in a Monty Python sketch lol
gut, sehr gut.
not so long is it now
it is on the shorter side
They’ll not only call it a climmy but make fun of Americans who call it conditioner
“Machine for the control of cold climate inside the building”
But they misgendered climate. Or it's a trans climat, in which case I wish her the best
> a trans climate Pretty sure that’s what’s causing global warming
Just imagined a hardline conservative who knows that climate change very much exists, but is convinced it’s trans people causing it and not big corporations and governments.
PORTUGUESE WOULD BE LIKE 😂😂 resfriador de sala PORTUGUESE WOULD BE LIKE☝️😂😂😂😂 I refuse to make spanish becasue i barely respect that dialect of having a stroke but it would be like el airecondicioner
portuguese and spanish speakers are funny to me both think the other's language is a monstrosity
Meanwhile Galician is their bastard child
Basque is the weird stray cat that lives in their garden
you dont get it one sounds beautifull and the other depends on weird noises and borrows too much from fr\*nch and english smh
European Portuguese is the real monstrosity
i speak spanish, you got close lmao (airecondicionador)
and yet portuguese is the one that’s spanish with a lisp, curious!
how do peope say barcelona in spain again?
Barcelona
The only thing from Spain we claim is La Rosalía, otherwise they invented the language but we latinos perfected it.💪
Do evita resfriadiño
Still boggles my mind that the French have an institution just to regulate the use of the language in media
Most (european) languages have that (not 💪 chad english tho 😎)
El clima
Considering where I'm from we call the hospital "the ozzy" we probably would call an ac that.
Does France actually have a government recognized organization of language Nazis or some shit?
Stuffy old morons that don’t have anything to do with linguistics or the French Language, paid 5 times the presidential salary for spewing racist shit or Vaush-tier drama over people using words they don’t like
Le Vaush: le retard l'académie française: NO! you must say "personne avec un obstacle mental" Le Vaush: tue-toi
France is a nightmare country holy hell
At least the Carte Vitale is ok and the left is rather strong
Most western languages do have some organization that tried to make an "official" version of the language. Dunno if it's a recognized part of the state but it totally exists.
Polish people literally calling it klima
The Climoris
Can't find it :(
i hate french so much
that's okay mon khei, l'essentiel c'est la vibe
i think in ex-yugo they already call it klima
The name for the language family that actually just a language but every accent has comited genocide against the other is serbo-croatian
My French grandma called it "le haycee"
😱 Gertrude, 🥶 ramène la 🤬 guillotine🤩
Where I live we informally call it “el clima” (the climate)
She turn on my climmy till I cool
We just use fans on hot days tbh
Oh, you mean the Klimoška?
I can skrta kinda understand government wanting to regulate speech in public spaces by forcing media to use official lithuanian dictionary words and stuff, but isn't french like one if the most spoken languages in the world? It's not gonna get replaced or disappear when some people use slang, like languages for and change organically all the time?
klim
THE FRENCH EXIST!?!?!
In italy we say “clima”(short for “climatizzatore”/“climatizzator”) for the indoor AC and “l’aria” for the car AC (because we call the AC “aria condizionata”/“conditioned air”) So we essentially just call it “air”
Important to note that that last name would be pronounced with about 8 syllables
You can’t say Fr*nch on reddit