Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 19:06 |
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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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