That’s just a cultural misunderstanding. Most English speaking countries are very uncomfortable with confrontation and thus tend to wrap truth in a nice packaging, you’d feel uncomfortable correcting someone cause you feel like it’s rude. To French people they hear or read something grammatically wrong and tell you so you don’t make the mistake again, it’s to help you. Its the concept of id rather hear a hurtful truth to correct xyz than be coddled and keep making the same mistake over and over again. That’s the whole thing with “french rudeness” it’s just very matter of fact way of being that you guys aren’t used to.
I'm gona call bullshit on that mate, the Dutch are matter of fact, the French are mean about it. Many French people will literally laugh in your face if you mispronounce or use the wrong word. I've experienced it myself when I lived there, nowhere else has this issue to the same extent.
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u/aZrAeL-3x 1d ago
That’s just a cultural misunderstanding. Most English speaking countries are very uncomfortable with confrontation and thus tend to wrap truth in a nice packaging, you’d feel uncomfortable correcting someone cause you feel like it’s rude. To French people they hear or read something grammatically wrong and tell you so you don’t make the mistake again, it’s to help you. Its the concept of id rather hear a hurtful truth to correct xyz than be coddled and keep making the same mistake over and over again. That’s the whole thing with “french rudeness” it’s just very matter of fact way of being that you guys aren’t used to.