• @SlopppyEngineer
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    1410 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
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      2210 months ago

      ‘Nonante’ is used in the French-speaking part of Belgium, but it’s generally frowned upon in France.

      • @SlopppyEngineer
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        2310 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
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          910 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
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            810 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.