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My last name is French. I thought it was Anglish but it turns out it's Norman, and, well, 1066. Unrelated to that, there's a French lady in my ancestry like 4-5 generations back. I also speak barely-fluent French, but because I'm a weirdo, I worked really hard on getting a good Parisian accent early on and now I'm hosed because native speakers use my accent as a cue to go a million miles an hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIqVY1SwXls <-- c'est moi içi. e: ne pas au sens propre cruft fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Manifisto posted:one thing travel in french speaking areas (uh, france especially) teaches you is that you should not try to predict what foods/dishes actually are relying solely on a basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary plus a small general purpose phrasebook. nor can you rely on asking the server to explain what the dishes are if they're going to answer in french, you'll likely still end up confused but feeling like you have to eventually pretend to understand so you aren't there all day/night. I made this same discovery in Belgium, trying to ask what was on a menu with my Pretty Good Accent, and having to walk out mystified, because everyone in my party is vegetarian and hell if I know what she just said. Also France is way less veggie friendly than any other country in Europe. Montreal was frickin' awesome though, and a lot cheaper for us to get to, so that's where we're going next time 
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Jan 28, 2022 19:53
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I’m going to invade this thread 
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Feb 1, 2022 19:37
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I’m going to invade this thread Now you should close all your nuclear plants, buy electricity from the thread's nuclear plants, and claim you've gone green. Hey-o! |
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Feb 1, 2022 19:39
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:This heavily industrialised, iron and steel producing corner of the thread is now a German thread drat it! You know what we need to prevent this kind of poo poo happening is a big wall between this thread and the German thread! |
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Feb 1, 2022 19:43
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Finger Prince posted:As long as there isn't a Belgian thread, because if there is they'll just go around. But going around is the whole *point*! |
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Feb 1, 2022 19:54
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(now we will have a decades-long debate about whether going around was the whole point) |
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Nosfereefer posted:if there was a belgian thread, it would make even the italian one look well organized! I'm sorry, this is the French thread, you mean le fil België. |
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Feb 1, 2022 20:10
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Hey French-understanders, have you ever looked at Haitian? I personally think it's badass, and a huge improvement when it comes to spelling. Check it out:creole ayisien posted:Sa se yon egzanp kreyòl ayisyen. Mwen panse ke li pi fasil pou aprann. français posted:Voilà une exemple du créole haïtien. Je pense que c'est plus façil d'apprendre. I'm not joking, this spelling makes way more sense. You have to give it a few minutes to get the hang of it, but then everything falls into place. At least it did for me. PS: I probably screwed up the French version. Is it pour apprendre? |
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