thinking about this chart that explains whether or not you should use "tu" or "vous" as a second person singular pronoun when talking with someone

@Felthry between this and gendered noun french has the same hostility as a medium difficulty video game boss

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@ShadyFennec not completely convinced the french language isn't some medieval guy's idea of a joke that got way out of hand
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@Felthry what if we took all the weird and bad stuff from several different language around this bit of land, add a bunch of things from a bunch of villages that developped their own vocabulary and rules in isolation, and just pretended it's the best language ever

(looking at you, residual vigesimal system for numbers leading to the very silly "4 20 = 80" thing that people mock us for)

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