REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day agoIf chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.message-squaremessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down13
arrow-up1130arrow-down1message-squareIf chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset.REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square89fedilink
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-223 hours agoIt gets a pass, cuz we anglicized it well enough Here are some other French words that are anglicized well enough to be an English word of its own Eg. war, guard, sturdy If it was a cringe word like “rendez-vous” (showing all yourselves), castling would be ewww
minus-squareGalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·22 hours agoMost war terms in English came from French on account of being conquered by the French via war
It gets a pass, cuz we anglicized it well enough
Here are some other French words that are anglicized well enough to be an English word of its own
Eg. war, guard, sturdy
If it was a cringe word like “rendez-vous” (showing all yourselves), castling would be ewww
Most war terms in English came from French on account of being conquered by the French via war