Gotta get it right or you'll order some wind instead of some wine. (Did that once, and that's how the difference finally stuck for me.)

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throwaway894345 2 days ago | parent [-]

What did the server bring to your table? A fan?

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wat10000 2 days ago | parent [-]

They understood what I meant, and then the French folks I was with had a long discussion with me about how it's not the same sound.

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throwaway894345 2 days ago | parent [-]

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)"

	▲	dolmen 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		And note that "crétin" means "dumb", so mispronouncing "chrétien" can seriously go wrong. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A9tin