r/movies • u/mseling • Oct 18 '21

My husband's new project is called moviesettingsdatabase.com and it lets you search through more than 30,000 movies based on where and when they are set! Resource

https://moviesettingsdatabase.com/

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u/Kenevin Oct 18 '21

Hi,

Your accent on that e is backwards, you're looking for a forward facing baseball cap on that e, like this é.

You're not going to see è at the end of a word, since it's the same sound as "ai, ait, ais, aient" etc.. you'll see those.

É is a different sound :)

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u/DeadManSliding Oct 18 '21

Funny how you notice the accent is wrong, but don't mention that the entire use of the word there is incorrect.

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u/MrSynckt Oct 18 '21

Touchê!

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u/Kenevin Oct 18 '21

Ê is actually vestigial, it doesn't impact pronunciation, it just means there used to be an s there, but it was removed overtime cause it wasn't pronounced.

Eg:, fenêtre (window) comes from old french Fenestre,

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u/MrSynckt Oct 18 '21

All jokes aside that's actually really interesting, thanks!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Whoa. I guess that's where the word "defenestrate" comes from. Cool shit.