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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 19:06
En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>I've been taken for a foreigner before, but that's always involved me speaking >in a foreign language. Possibly, my recent one-year stay in Germany has left >some mark on my Swedish, but the whole incident nonetheless seems somewhat >extraordinary to me. > >Anyone else here experienced something similar?
Each time I'm in France basically ;)) . The thing is, when I'm in France it's always with foreigners around me (at least my boyfriend, often other people too), and I usually speak Dutch to them. For French people, it's as if I spoke Martian or Borg: they know it's not English, but they don't know what the heck it could be. And they just cannot believe a French person could speak such a language, so I'm automatically a foreigner. Even when I speak French to them, they congratulate me for my accentless French rather than recognise I'm *really* French ;)) . Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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