When I was in then West Germany, where racial hatred then focused on "Turks" (and refugees), I made the experience that I am a Turk if I open my mouth and don't speak German. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
if you can't, you're an Anglo even if you have a French name
if you speak French like Jérôme, you're in trouble ;-)
he was very disappointed.
(ok, not really sure how to represent a Swiss accent in writing)
Surely you mean:
if you speak French, like Jérôme, you're in trouble ;-)
Comprende?
this explains Jérôme's mainly female entourage!
in the blogosphere, many DKosers and practically all Eurotribians, non?
If you speak French, then you're in trouble
"like Jérôme" provides no additional information in that sentence if you only use me as a notional Frenchman with no identifiable accent; otherwise it suggests that it is the way I speak specifically which would get one in trouble. But maybe that's what you mean? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
no, I only used you as an example but meant all Frenchmen
if you speak French with the same accent as Jérôme, you're in trouble. they think French people are arrogant,
Indeed, they are... "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
