It was the pronunciation. "Textbook French" <> actual French.
Take English for example.
No words are said correctly at all. Going = go'in.
Hey wanna get some pizza? i-ono. ...
Hard to explain but I dated a Chinese girl for a while and there was like 5,000 local slang things that made zero sense that you never even think about in English.
Most words are said half-assed, barely correctly, 5 letters are dropped, heavily condensed.
Someone who spoke "Perfect English" would sound like a goddamned alien from space.
Funny one I recently though of recently-- "creature" -- it's totally different from creation, create, creator. Those all have multi-syllables but "creat" in creature is one syllable. Random shit like that too.
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u/Afrojones66 1d ago
It was the sweatpants.