My french is a bit rusty but i think it should be :
Un café ? (one coffee ?)
-oui
Du sucre ? (sugar?)
-Non
(The rest of the comic )
This remains unrealistic because no French cafe worker would ever smile at you or compliment your French.
no ~~French~~ Parisian cafe worker
Ftfy
More like "has coffee?" / "yes" / "the sugar?" / "nah".
I'm not proficient in the language, but it sounds like it could be interpreted as either sentence fragments (what she assumed) or lack of proficiency (reality).
That would be the literal translation of the broken french in the comic, which I assumed was likely due to the artist unfamiliarity with French since the barista is supposed to be french or at least know french well enough to compliment his attempt, and hence I offered a more structurally sound version (well, I hope)
My bad - I misread you.
Maybe the joke is that neither of them can speak French?
One of my greatest skills is that I can convince a non-French speaker that I'm fluent in French - down to inflections and slang - by slurring a sentence of semi-random phonemes in an appropriately Gaelic-sounding way.
Uuuuhhh... C'in ueone du pas se lumbranhéu dol se né frunitigier au Brenlibop aux, uuuuhhh... frie somién parlesonophe, non?
I did this with many languages. Spoke Hindi, but convinced people I could speak the other related languages (Telegu, Marathi, etc.) by just saying random things in my little fake accent. Usually ended it with some small “sharp” words (like “tittu”, just sounds “sharp”) to really sell it.
Useless skills are the best skills.
I mastered "je ne parle pas français.", people stopped beliving me.
That and "désolé" combined with a Jim Halpert "I'm sorry" look and shrug.
All this while living in Québec.
Je suis americain. Please cook my steak again.
Serve you? Why, do I look like a server?
Is that Kafka from FF6?
Yep
Firefox 6 was a long time ago, but I think that it was the red panda already.
Ich habe die Rauchzeichen gesehen.
What's the joke, for a non-European?
"Gracias" is not French for "thank you"
It's Spanish. French would be "merci".
wait wh -- how does this comment have -1 downvote
Weird. Shows on mine as +7
i see 8 upvotes, -1 downvotes, for a total of 9 points
Ah. shrug, there's always a random downvote or 2 anywhere
no like i think someone managed to somehow do an anti-downvote. that -1 downvotes isn't a score of negative 1, it's a negative downvote that increased the score by 1 instead. when i click the downvote button the number of downvotes goes to 0, and when i unclick it it goes back to -1. words cannot describe my confusion
Haha. I've heard the issue before, though I don't remember the exact reasoning.
Or my post was just so enlightened that it transcended the limitations of karma. I like that explanation myself
Say ‘Oui’, not ‘Si’.
Was living in France and went to Italy for an F1 weekend. Can't tell you how many times I did this backwards. That or I'd be like "ciao una cafe per favore" then "merci". damn so close
Why are they drawn like that
fuck... is this loss?
I can relate with this one. 😅
Are those sideburns or part of his peaked cap?
Yes
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