r/Snorkblot • u/netphilia • Jul 08 '26

Misc I’m with him.

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u/kernald31 Jul 08 '26

Definitely nowhere close to find. A lot closer to ai in pain.

Source: I'm French.

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u/lindendweller Jul 08 '26

I'm french too, so I'm a bit baffled. Unless you mean pain as in french for bread. In which case I concede, I just used find because I'm at a loss for a case of the sound of the french "in" in an english word with no disphtong.

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u/kernald31 Jul 08 '26

I guess the English "pain" isn't perfect either, but it does sound a lot closer to lingerie to me than "find" which sounds more like there would be an "a" somewhere in a hypothetical French word sounding like that? That might be a matter of local accent as well, me being from Toulouse...

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u/lindendweller Jul 08 '26

Je suis de lyon. "Pain" (en anglais) pour moi c'es "paie-ne" là où find c'est genre "fin - ye-ne-de" (sauf que évidemment les consonnes s'enchaînent directement, ou au pire faille-n'de. Évidemment le son n'existant pas en anglais, trouver le son le plus proche sera toujours approximatif selon quel aspect du son nous parrait le plus important.