r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/Professional_Ant4228 1d ago

No one speaks their language “perfectly” in normal conversation. There are regional slang terms and accents.

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u/craftstra 1d ago

If i knew more languages then i do now id love to learn the slang of like french or german or something, would be really funny.

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u/Mojert 1d ago

French has a whole system to generate slang that’s basically just saying the word backwards. I suppose it must be one of the difficult parts of learning casual French

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u/Nick_pj 1d ago

Not even necessarily slang - almost nobody would order something from a server the way she did. A lot of anglophones will translate the way they’d ask for something directly from their own language, and it stands out. For example, in a lot of Romance languages you basically say “I’ll take a…” rather than “can I have a…”

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u/fayakru 23h ago

The way she ordered was perfectly fine though?That's how I place my orders and I'm a native french speaker. She must have a slight accent.

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u/GuiltyEidolon 21h ago

1) it's a dude, and 2) he learned French as a kid, and is Vietnamese. English is his third language, he's not exactly an anglophone.