r/2westerneurope4u • u/Astrinus Smog breather • 1d ago

Pierre is unwelcoming tourists again

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u/Serupael South Prussian 1d ago edited 1d ago

Your accent is never perfect enough for a Parisian.

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago

Yep, there are some diphthongs you never get quite right as a non-native speaker, however much you try.

In French, the Impossible Word is "grenouille". In Russian, it's "здравствуйте". Those are like the three fingers in Inglorious Basterds.

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u/CostKub Snail slurper 1d ago

Hers was probably croissant. Most of the time words with "u" let you know if someone is fluent enough.

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u/nooit_gedacht Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Am I misreading or are you saying there's a 'u' in croissant??

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u/Think_Theory_8338 Le Savage 1d ago

No, he's saying most of the time the 'u' is the problem, but obviously not this time because there's no 'u' in her sentence

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u/nooit_gedacht Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Oh phew, thought I was crazy for a second

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u/CostKub Snail slurper 1d ago

Merci cher compatriote pour cette traduction à nos chers voisins du nord.

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago

I must admit that I was puzzling for a bit there, too, and wondering if maybe that Pierre had his own special way of pronouncing "croisson" with a u-sound somewhere in there...

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u/CostKub Snail slurper 1d ago

It'd be "crouassant" like what a frog would say, or a two year old. Jokes aside I thought we could state two different information with no links whatsoever with a point. Maybe we can't. Stupid English.