I think the elitism regards of French isn't about French native speakers but about second language learners. French was the lingua franca in Europe for quite a while and using French loan words makes you sound more fancy and eloquent in many languages (compare "adult" with "grownup" which is a Latin loan word but I can't think of a real example so I hope no one will notice).

The Russian bit I totally agree. Esperanto vs python is quite a leap, I agree. Showing a list (that's probably not conclusive but still) is telling when compared to the go to beginners programming language. Still there are parallels in the design and intention. No comparison is ever perfect.

All in all it's not perfect but as a joke, it works for me. Sure, it's not unbiased but if not taken too seriously, I can laugh about it, and I can over analyze it for fun so win win for me.

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It’s kinda funny, I’m Flemish and a lot of French loan words (ambriage, merci, nondedju = nom de dieu to name a few) are mainly used in dialect, and therefore don’t make you sounds sophisticated or worldly at all.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From what I know it's similar in Swiss German (with words like merci and velo (bike)). I don't know about Fleming but Swiss embraces their dialects so it isn't stigmatized either

[–] randomname01@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

Heh, we use velo as well. And yeah, we don’t really stigmatise dialects that much either, though depending on how much dialect you use people might find it unprofessional.

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