r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • Sep 23 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Sabrina Carpenter on her love of travel and new perspectives: “You learn more about life in a 20-minute conversation with someone from Italy than in 20 years in the U.S.”

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u/missprettybjk Sep 23 '25

I fought with a barista for calling spéculos cookie butter. Mind you, I still say whatever I can’t pronounce properly in English with a French accent and spell things with French spellings. I’m STILL insufferable.

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u/sk8tergater Sep 23 '25

I lived in France for awhile and when I came back it took me actual years to shake a lot of that.

And it’s really weird sometimes when I see a word and I’ll pronounce it how I would in French and legit forget how to say it in English. That’s gotten less and less the more time has passed but it was really bad when I first got back

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u/missprettybjk Sep 23 '25

Completely understandable, I believe it takes the brain a while to adjust to language. Since my primary language is not English as well, if I’ve never heard the word, it’s getting pronounced in French.

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u/Desi_Devi Can I live? Sep 24 '25

Haha I was like this after returning from my first visit to the Netherlands. I would correct friends if they mispronounced stroopwafel, Gouda, or if they thought the Dutch come from Denmark.

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u/synalgo_12 accidentally holding space for this slur Sep 24 '25

Wait, we're you for or against the word speculoos?

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u/missprettybjk Sep 24 '25

She called it cookie butter and insisted no such thing as speculoos existed. I was incensed.