Re: CHAT: Need a word for these!

Christophe Grandsire escreva:
>En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:
>
> > Someone who laughs at his own jokes.
>
>A French man? :))) (note that being also French, I'm allowed to do this
>kind of
>self-denigrating humour :)) . Note that I consider myself much French
>anymore :)) )
Oooh! Wash your mouth out young man. It's so much more fun being foreign in
a foreign country if you see what I mean. In Britain I can be effortlessly
superior because I'm French and in France I can be offensively superior
because I'm British.

> > Someone who speaks a term or phrase in, say French, and does it with
> > correct
> > French pronunciation.
The correct word here is "Frenchman". It took me ages to lose my French
accent, but I will still use it out of awkwardness if using French phrases
in English. To be honest the only two French phrases I use in English are
"somellier" and "chef du rang" because of my job. I don't like mixing the
two- they sound awful together and it only confuses me.

Dan

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