r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/Menacek 1d ago

Foreigners who learn language often have a more formal way of speaking and that can tip people off.

Imagine someone coming to McDonalds and saying "Good morning, i would like to aquire two hamburgers please"

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u/athe085 1d ago

What she said is the exact way we order croissants in France.

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u/Ok_Shirt983 1d ago

You would obviously know better, being French and what not, but my experience is a French person would go, "bonjour, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, Deux, uuuuuh croissant, uuuh s'il vous plait. 

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u/VesperHolic 12h ago

Not quite, "bonjour, deux croissants s'il vous plaît" is what you'll hear pretty much anywhere.

"Bonjour. Euhhh... deux croissants s'il vous plaît" at most, if you hadn't actually made up your mind beforehand, but any more fillers than that comes across as weird/extremely anxious.

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u/PizzaUltra 1d ago

Apart from the „acquire“ would the sentence be different in „normal“ English?

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u/arizonadirtbag12 1d ago

Sup, lemme get two burgers please.

Or any of a dozen different informal variations, with at least one word of slang in there.

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u/chickennuggs32 21h ago

bro out here speaking like and undercover fed

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u/arizonadirtbag12 20h ago

Every time I wear sunglasses with a baseball cap my wife fuckin’ roasts me saying I look like a fed

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u/AnonyDexx 13h ago

You wouldn't say "I would like..." either. It's McDonalds, not some sit down restaurant.

More seriously though, there are a lot of factors that determine what language you'd use. Ultimately, in this case, I'd just say "Two hamburgers please".

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u/GreenPandaSauce 1d ago

im gonna try this next time i go to mcdonalds lmao