Okay but no joke people call it “La clime” in French. This meme is too real!
Some Germans shorten “Die Klimaanlage” to “Die Klima” which is pretty close to “Das Klima”, meaning climate.
Personally I prefer “Der Klimat” (with the t at the end) just to fuck with people, because everyone understands it but nobody likes it XD
My immediate thought. Even better it’s the classic French “no that word is of the other gender”. Le climatiseur, La climatisation, easy!
This is 100% true.
Official French language test demands you call it “le fin du semaine”. Meanwhile every single Quebecer and New Brunswicker calls it “le weekend”.
Finally a place for me to whinge about how sweden has adopted “city” as our term for downtown, it feels so aggressively stockholmian to force in an english word like that when we already have “centrum” which is the same as most european langauges anyway.
People who say “aircon” nonchalantly whistling as they try to walk away unnoticed
“Air Conditioner”, meanwhile, is the kind of name americans in the 50s give products to make them sound slightly futuristic and the next in a long line of purchases necessary for the Middle Class™ life. Twenty years on and its an abbreviation.
An abbreviation that sometimes needs clarification since Americans also became too lazy to say “Alternating Current.”
Hypothetical conversation:
“Something something AC.”
“Hmm, do you mean alternating current? Or air conditioning?”
The English would end up using rhyming slang for it. They’d call it “the stop” as in “stop and stare [rhymes with air]” or some other insufferable thieves’ cant.
Meanwhile in Quebec the language police has decided that “climat” is too close to “climate” and must be banned, and anyone who disagrees gets the death penalty. This caused an outrage in parliament so now the official policy is only every second disagreement gets the death penalty.
Itallian restaurant :
Calls pasta, pasta.Quebecois language police :
And I took that personallyThis is so dumb, I’m feeling physical pain.
How dare other countries have cultures? Especially with some strange word nobody outside of a small village in their countryside knows, like “pasta”!
Australians would call it the climo. Actually, how do they not do this already?
Because it’s called aircon
To be fair, some do get specific if they have a splitty
It’s the airco, old mate.
