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throwaway894345yesterday at 7:27 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, I've been there. Apparently my pronunciation of "Chretien" (Christian) was indecipherable, and the French people I was speaking with clarified it for me by saying, "you're saying cray-tee-uh(n), but it's pronounced cray-tee-uh(n)"


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dolmenyesterday at 8:41 PM

And note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin