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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

culture differences made simple for us *slow* anglophones. but what the hell is the limit on ice cubes?!

Nicholas Manning said...: "Remember to flip-flop the month and the day."

I certainly will!

I sincerely wouldn't make fun of anyone's language, really - lord knows i'm an expat, i know what that's like - but if she's going to take the simpleton approach . . .

Her English is pretty bad though. It's passable, but she needs a grammatical refresher: my salespeople at the furniture store wouldn't just keep using the present continuous like that for no reason ("in France we are using th

"Never a title with a first name" ? What? Do we do that in English? Mr. Nicholas?

And what does she mean by "none of THAT" at the table etiquette part? In France, nobody masturbates while eating.

And there's always HEAPS of ice in French drinks! It's cheaper for the bar, lady. Like anywhere. It's WATER. It's not expensive, yet.

But the best of all perhaps is the red-light explanation: "Oh, so I was supposed to stop BEFORE the light officer? Not on the other side of the intersection? Aaaaaaaaah . . .; 8:42 PM