Just a general announcement that I will be turning myself black for the reminder of the day.
That is all.
Duly noted. ๐ด
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.
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I got scolded by a coworker for saying "Arigatล" to a cashier in a Starbucks.
"You ONLY need to say DลMล!"
I might possibly be the only gaijin in the history of Japanese foreign relations who ever got scolded for being TOO polite.
The French will eyeroll you like you just gave them a headache if youโre 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 ๐
Ask a Parisian what they think about Quรฉbeรงois, and take three big steps backwards.
or vice-versa ๐คฃ
the Quebec city VS Montreal ''sentiment'' is hilarious too
(when they both had a hockey team ....oh boy ๐ )
Oh, Quรฉbeรงois is easy, you just need to pretend it's still 1752.
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 ๐
I'm pretty sure that, outside of a few million-year-old guys in l'Acadรฉmie Franรงaise (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, weโre going to the Canadian Riviera (thatโs 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 @mcfate if itโs bad theyโll Peak to you I. Rapid fire french, smirk, and walk away
Oh, they get MUCH more tolerant when there's cash involved.
Unless you ask for ketchup for your pommes frรฎtes.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate me? I look at them blankly and try to figure out if I can recognize one word
In Japan, they keep "picture menus" for people like you.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius yeah China too.
Much unrecognizable, but ๐คทโโ๏ธ
The difference between Japan and France is that in Japan, nobody imagines that foreigners can manage to speak Japanese.
The French are kind of like the Texans: they think EVERYONE actually speaks their language, somehow, just that lots of people deliberately pretend they can't to make everyone else miserable.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius
Except the rugby teams. Decidedly unchill.
@TheAbbotTrithemius Are you 'racially charged' enough to effect that change?
@TheAbbotTrithemius
I was thinking about turning into a Pacific Islander.
Fijians are pretty chill. Must be the kava.