07-21-2004, 12:10 PM
I wish I wasn't flawless, so I could have something to contribute to this thread.
...yeah, okay...I wish I hadn't let my French skills lax so much since I left secondary school. Nowadays, my English accent is so bad that the francophones can barely understand me. Then I have to make an exaggerated accent where I make too great an effort to silence the "h"s, and then they think I'm making fun of them. And now, there's a whole new French slang that makes things even more difficult to understand.
Francophone: He, mec, t'a tu du feu?
Me: The fuck d'you call me, bitch??
I eventually deciphered that he was asking if I had a lighter.
...yeah, okay...I wish I hadn't let my French skills lax so much since I left secondary school. Nowadays, my English accent is so bad that the francophones can barely understand me. Then I have to make an exaggerated accent where I make too great an effort to silence the "h"s, and then they think I'm making fun of them. And now, there's a whole new French slang that makes things even more difficult to understand.
Francophone: He, mec, t'a tu du feu?
Me: The fuck d'you call me, bitch??
I eventually deciphered that he was asking if I had a lighter.