• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And the French get offended if you use the wrong word. I went to a shop there and asked if something was ninety (there is a word for that). The shopkeeper gives me a scathing look and says with emphasis it’s four twenty ten.

        • Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          They kind of stare at you as if you just farted in the most obscene way possible.

          Or they passive-aggressively make you repeat what you said until you say it ‘right’.

          Or they reply in a kind of exaggerated broken English.