Just a general announcement that I will be turning myself black for the reminder of the day.
That is all.
I was thinking about turning into a Pacific Islander.
Fijians are pretty chill. Must be the kava.
Duly noted. 🌴
Turning Japanese would only get me MORE scolding about how I "speak like a kindergartener".
When you're bad at Japanese, they tell you how good you are at it.
When you get better, they immediately start telling you how BAD you are at it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got scolded by a coworker for saying "Arigatō" to a cashier in a Starbucks.
"You ONLY need to say DŌMŌ!"
The French will eyeroll you like you just gave them a headache if you’re French is GOOD or BAD.
Oh, the French talk even WORSE smack about native-French-speaking people from Nice and Cannes.
You should HEAR the smack they talk about BELGIANS.
You should SEE the bemused dismissiveness Belgians have for the French. Really satisfying.
can confirm 😄
Ask a Parisian what they think about Québeçois, and take three big steps backwards.
or vice-versa 🤣
the Quebec city VS Montreal ''sentiment'' is hilarious too
(when they both had a hockey team ....oh boy 😆 )
Fun part with the 1752 French is all the stuff that didn't exist in 1752.
i.e : a ''ball bearing'' on an ''essieux''
axles already existed but not ball bearings, so '''essieux'' in French , ''bearing'' in English.
Yeah, but the French themselves are the ones who couldn't tolerate "foreign" terms like "email" and "Walkman", so they had to try to foist abject nonsense like "courriel" and "balladeur" off on the general populace.
a funfact: about ''foreign'' terms in French.
Our school had to get an ''exemption'' to teach ''english'', because the terms used for airplanes in France and Quebec are so different it doesn't even ''makes sense''
i.e. its a ''flap'' , not a ''volet hypersustentateur''
nobody never said this 😄
I'm pretty sure that, outside of a few million-year-old guys in l'Académie Française (who've never even SEEN a Walkman), nobody ever called one a "balladeur", either, other than as a form of mockery.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @BLuOXide Thanks for the reminder, we’re going to the Canadian Riviera (that’s Old Orchard Beach in Maine to me) next week and the water is tres froid. Same week in August for the past 28 years, I kind of missed them during Covid lockdown
@Valkaru @TheAbbotTrithemius @BLuOXide
I used to hang around Kennebunk, Biddeford Pool, and Cape Elizabeth.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @BLuOXide
Oh, Québeçois is easy, you just need to pretend it's still 1752.