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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i do think french people sound ridiculous when they pepper their speech with random english words (*why* ??) but more because it's pretentious and stupid.
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It's just as ridiculous the other way round, when English speakers toss in a word (usually horribly mispronounced) in French, for the same purpose, to sound what we in the South call "high-falootin'"
I have relations (who shall remain unspecified) who insist on pronouncing the word "bayou" as "bah you," instead of "by oh" like 'regular' folks. The really ironic thing is that, if I remember correctly, "by oh" is actually
closer to the French pronunciation, and "bah you" is more of a Cajun pronunciation. So in their efforts to sound 'faincey' they actually sound more back-woods than they think everyone
else does.
