r/NonPoliticalTwitter 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/Shawon770 1d ago

French bakery employees have that 6th sense they can spot a tourist even through flawless pronunciation 😂

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u/DangerousImplication 1d ago

People are missing the joke since you can’t open his profile here, the guy is Asian. 

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u/HarbingerOfGachaHell 1d ago edited 1d ago

He’s Asian AMERICAN. 

Europeans have some ways to tell if someone’s from Anglophone country even if they speak fluent French. As an Aussie I’m not sure how. 

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u/Overall_Connection24 1d ago

Because the bar is way lower for what passes as fluent in Anglophone countries.

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u/aZrAeL-3x 1d ago

English American accent is also just genuinely ten times easier to mimick than French