• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 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.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        23·
        11 months ago

        frowned upon

        as in “you just wiped your ass with my language, my country and the history of my ancestors” it seems

        • Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world
          9·
          11 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.

          • The_v@lemmy.world
            8·
            11 months ago

            Not the ever so polite French!

            I spent a lot of time in the country when I worked for a French owned company.

            It’s a beautiful country, too bad about the epidemic of sticks in their asses. I am so glad it hasn’t spread to their neighbors.