• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    9 months ago

    Wait wait wait… So I only know a small amount of French and mostly from media I’ve watched, so unless I’m mixing words here when I’ve heard “garçon” (pronounced garsonne?) in a restaurant, they’re literally calling the waiter “boy?”

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        9 months ago

        Thanks! It’s been such a long time since I watched that, looks like I need to watch it again lol

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      9 months ago

      Indeed. Never gave a second thought to the word but apparently it’s the name of a young male servant. The pronunciation ends with a nasal vowel as there is no trailing “e” at the end. In IPA that’s /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/. If you say /ɡaʁ.ɔn/ it makes it sound female.

      Un patron = male owner

      Une patronne = female owner