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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.catoLinguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksExplain French
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    5 days ago

    French phonology was heavily influenced by Germanic languages, unlike Spanish and Italian.

    For better or for worse, the orthography (writing system) did not really keep up with the changes.

    So instead of French being half way between Italian and Spanish, like you might expect, it’s really it’s own thing when it comes to pronunciation.


  • Well… The original meme is in kbps (kilobits per second or kilobaud). The quoted speeds for the tech seem to line up with kbps and not kB/s, so I think this is the intent.

    8 bits = 1 byte, so in this specific example it was very easy to convert 8 kbps to 1 kB/s to determine that it would take 8 seconds to download an 8 kB file.

    Maybe secret300 meant a 8 kilobit file, they did use lowercase ‘b’ afterall 🙂.