a thing for accents, and vamp babylon

[stormsandsins]

This client was the sweetest thing to me yesterday.

Me: Blah blah blah I'm sorry so-and-so is on holiday. Do you want their voice mail?
Client: Blah blah blah oh and btw what's your native tongue?
Me: French, why?
Client: Wow. And how is it that you're so fluent in English?
Me: ... I'm bilingual?
Client: *LOL*

;D

I dunno, I've got really bad days sometimes

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[girlspell]

One accent at a time. :) I like that I'm not from the US. I was born in Italy. Came here as a child. My Italian is kind of rusty, but on a recent trip back to Milan, I received compliments on my accent.

I don't know French. I know some Spanish. Took that up in school. There is a new kind of language. Some people cal it LOLcat speak. It's really computer speak. I wonder if there is a French version of it? See my icon. Or I should say "I has icon."

[stormsandsins]

That's awesome. I can understand Spanish but I really want to learn how to speak it, too :)

I think we LJ citizens are all fluent in LOLcat speak ;) As for a French version? We don't call it that, but there's a ton of shorthands: pkoi (why), qqch (something), ya (there's), ^m (same), etc.

[osenverre]

This is what I call world domination, one accent at a time ;P

lol, do it!

[stormsandsins]

You know, I would.

[kerosinkanister]

Was this client American? Because that sounds like the kind of clueless thing a certain sort of American might say. You mean people can speak two languages? Wow!

[stormsandsins]

No, he was from Ontario. Honestly, it's the sort of thing most non-Montrealers (except the few small bilingual communities across the country) say all the time. I'm used to it by now *shrugs*

Though Americans would possibly make the top of the list.