So then I should have been the ugly American and not bothered? If we try and learn the language, we are idiots, if we don't we are arrogant idiots.
So wait weren't you just defending the French as saying this wasn't their normal behavior? I'm sooooooo confused, I need to go back over this thread. Damned weekends. -----Original Message----- From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:48 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: French Protest so you had French as a second language for six years. As for the French, well, they are well-known for being disdainful to those they perceive as a non-French speakers. >Yes Alberta public schools, and all over the city, not in any one >section. When I travel overseas I try to take whatever free time I >have, travel on public transportation, and see stuff, get down in the >alleys, check out the places the locals eat. > >In Italy after my first day I had basically picked up a guide, and a ton >of information in broken French and English. In France I had a hard >time even getting people to acknowledge I was there. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:15 PM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Re: French Protest > >um, these would have been Alberta public schools? Still. I am sure you >could ask for directions. What part of Paris are we talking about, out >of curiosity? If you were in the tourist areas people may simply have >been Americaned out. That woman shouting across a room about how cute >something was was real, and probably singlehandedly set perceptions of >American back city-wide. FWIW, I was fluent, but my mother was routinely >treated as subintelligent because she was not. As are most non-English >speakers in the US, to be fair. > >It's hard to escape the stereotypes others have of your country when you >are in a foreign country. I can't tell you how many times I had to >explain that no, I had never seen an igloo, not a real one anyway. > >I think this is where Joachim was going. My experience in Denmark was >that younger people tended to speak English and older people spoke >German. And did not want to. As a complicating factor, my German was >just barely good enough to buy food and ask for directions, so I doubt >anyone thought I was German. So he may well be saying something else, as >I suspect he speaks German the way he does everything..... > >>God I hated Paris, and the exact opposite experience. >> >>I learned French in school, not in the 2 years in US high school >manner, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231787 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
