• Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    18 days ago

    They are not assholes for preferring their own language over the beetroot-chomping English (Simplified) of some obnoxious foreigners, too arrogant to at least adapt a little.

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      18 days ago

      They’re assholes.

      I speak French, in Paris they still look at you like garbage.

      Actually, outside of Paris I got along fine, but here’s the thing: Even native french speakers from outside of Paris are treated like absolute garbage by Parisians, it’s their only setting.

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          18 days ago

          Yeah, but … that’s like saying “Oh, that’s just London!” about England, that’s the key part of the country.

          Paris would be so much better if it weren’t for the fucking Parisians.

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            18 days ago

            I found Londoners to be different in that respect, but that might be just me.

            Terrific gif, by the way, I love it.

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      18 days ago

      You sound French.

      I speak three languages, I don’t speak French on purpose and I will never learn it, I’d rather learn Russian or Hebrew than French.

      They are as arrogant as it gets and they are hated for it rightfully.

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        18 days ago

        I happen to speak French, German, Dutch and a bit of Russian, and if I dig deep, some remnants of Arabic might come up. I can assure you Russian is the more poetic but French definitely the easiest to learn.

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          18 days ago

          I know that Russian is very hard, I didn’t learn French out of spite. I had it in school, I hated it so much that the moment it wasn’t longer necessary I abandoned the entire knowllage about it and I can’t remember anything meaningful (besides some meme stuff)