The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoHow did they know?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1991arrow-down110
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minus-squareedinbruh@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 months agoYeah, that was what I was thinking. There’s no way a French person spoke in English of their own volition
minus-squareSimon_Shitewood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoI always found it pretty easy - just start speaking french with an English accent and they’ll start speaking English just to make you stop.
minus-squareedinbruh@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThey probably thought you weren’t European, and switched to patronising you.
minus-squareccunix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoNow it has become a way for people to blow their own trumpet.
Yeah, that was what I was thinking. There’s no way a French person spoke in English of their own volition
I always found it pretty easy - just start speaking french with an English accent and they’ll start speaking English just to make you stop.
They probably thought you weren’t European, and switched to patronising you.
Now it has become a way for people to blow their own trumpet.