Frederick the Great, discussion post 5: or: Yuletide requests are out!

[cahn]

All Yuletide requests are out!

Yuletide related:
-it is sad that I can't watch opera quickly enough these days to have offered any of them, these requests are delightful!

-That is... sure a lot of prompts for MCS/Jingyan. But happily some that are not :D (I like MCS/Jingyan! But there are So Many Other characters!)

Frederician-specific:
-I am so excited someone requested Fritz/Voltaire, please someone write it!!

-I also really want someone to write that request for Poniatowski, although that is... definitely a niche request, even for this niche fandom. But he has memoirs?? apparently they are translated from Polish into French

-But while we are waiting/writing/etc., check out this crack commentfic where Heinrich and Franz Stefan are drinking together while Maria Theresia and Frederick the Great have their secret summit, which turns into a plot to marry the future Emperor Joseph to Fritz...

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Comments

Re: French pronunciation

[cahn]

Oh wow, that's super cool. My French teacher told me about the circumflex but I didn't know about any of the other stuff.

Re: French pronunciation

[mildred_of_midgard]

Historical linguistics is full of neat explanations for things, or at least I think so. When people want to know why such-and-such is, I take delight in being able to explain the history of the word over the last one to two thousand years. (This comes up a lot when I'm doing ESL with a French-speaking friend. He likes to joke that it's good to know there's usually a reason behind the chaos that is the English language, but that it's not scalable to expect all foreigners to get a PhD so the language can make sense to them!)