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Anon double-checks something important (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes. Gotta love the american stereotype that French people are mean/unwelcoming, because we don’t automatically speak your language, or play along with your game of pretending its completely normal to show up anywhere expecting us to speak your language.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah. The french are mean and unwelcoming for totally different reasons.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I pretended not speak English when I got hassled by all the street scammers.

[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually, when I was in Paris in high school, I had the opposite experience - I kept trying to speak French (which I could speak conventionally after 6 years of study), and many people would refuse to answer me in French, instead answering me in English.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

It’s cuz people don’t want to suffer through a broken conversation. So if they speak english better than you speak french, they’ll switch to english.

Plus Paris is a super international city, it’s not the most “French” place in terms of language.