How French Came Up With The Word For “Pool”

[ophidian_]

I just remember that when I was learning french i used to think '' piss in " to remember what pool meant

[pyruvite]

I love how French naming stuff is just like how your younger sibling just copies what you say all of the time 😂

[kuniscars]

french: piscine
portuguese: piscina
spanish: piscina
italian: piscina
French it’s the adopted brother of the group lmao

[jasongranados]

🇪🇸: Piscina
🇵🇹: Piscina
🇮🇹: Piscina
🇷🇴: Piscină
🇫🇷: Piscine

It is the same word in the Romance languages ​​because it comes from the Latin "pisces", which means fish.

[spookypeanut]

Fun fact : "piscine" actually comes from the latin "piscis" which means "fish".

[Zack-blgg]

Lol
This is kinda the plot of the life of Pi. His dad names him piscine and everyone called him “pissing” so he memorized pi to a thousand or so digest so people would call him Pi

[kabochaVA]

Every French-speaker at 0:06 : "oh... I already know where this is going...." 🤣

[heresyourefries]

"oh god not that face!" Gets me every time.

[trizzkuske]

The way my French 1 teacher got us to memorize the word “pool” was “do not piscine the pool.” This was over zoom and it totally caught me off guard. Safe to say I won’t be forgetting the French “pool” any time soon.

[MichaelTimes]

French teacher taught us, “what do you NOT do in the pool? Don’t piscine the pool!”

[pierrebarbieri]

Loic is simply masterful at exposing differences in languages that on the surface make no sense and doing so in such a creative way that I just can't get enough! He deserves some sort of award by some international language commity somewhere for sure! AND a comedic award for making it so damn funny! Love, Aime, Quiero mucho TODO.... En plus d'être mignon à botte ! 😊
Bravo and thank you!!!

[myriamcisse]

As a French native-speaker, Ive never noticed 😂 that’s funny

[KP_Gem]

I've learned more from this guys videos than I have from 12 years of public school.

[bekahnavarro]

My family went to a public pool when I was a kid. It had a sign that said, "Welcome to our OOL. Notice there's no P. Let's keep it that way."

[stardustcoffee]

Funnily enough French is not the only language that does this. In Spanish we call it piscina.

[michaelskyland]

In France’s perspective, they’re probably wondering why “piss in” sounds like “swimming pool”.

[teamtwiistz]

The people who pee in pools are the same ones who wear shoes in the house

[infius]

Love the fact that every language still speaks English when speaking to eachother

[MostPowerfulPMofIndia]

Literally it matched
This was an ultimate video

[Eli_Lamb]

In Spanish, we learned a few words for pool... “Piscina” was one that my teacher always seemed a bit cautious of saying. I never understood until she said, “Piscina — Pool” over and over. And then suddenly the whole class also understood. From then on, she only ever said, “Alberca — Pool.”