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minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 months agoAnd 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.
minus-squareVrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·9 months ago‘Nonante’ is used in the French-speaking part of Belgium, but it’s generally frowned upon in France.
minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·9 months ago frowned upon as in “you just wiped your ass with my language, my country and the history of my ancestors” it seems
minus-squareVrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoThey 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.
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoNot 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.
minus-squaresupercriticalcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agogenerally Belgium is frawn upon I gather.
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.
‘Nonante’ is used in the French-speaking part of Belgium, but it’s generally frowned upon in France.
as in “you just wiped your ass with my language, my country and the history of my ancestors” it seems
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.
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.
generally Belgium is frawn upon I gather.