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Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 13:14
Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:


> Hmm, once I was a guide for an Australian girl in > Paris, and I tried so hard to speak English all the > time that, as I addressed a guy standing on a taxi > file near Etoile, I talked to him in English too. Only > after a while I realized that he was French, I was > French, we were both standing in the middle of the > capital of France, and there was absolutely no reason > why we should not speak French together. And, true, if > proved to be much easier when we went on in French. > > Perhaps your hostess was in the same situation.
It's of course possible she'd been speaking English recently, but I do know she spoke Swedish with the girl before me in the line. Andreas