I can kind of understand French being taught in Saarland with the border right there. At my school in the UK we did either French or German, with students that got good grades having the option to do Spanish. Of course, Spanish would have been the useful one to learn considering where I ended up living! I should have tried harder at French...
I was just joking too. I'm French so yeah, I know a lot of french-speaker. ;) And, to be honest, I'm kind of shocked that some people might learn French only, instead of English nowadays. Even in Germany, which shares a border with our country... It makes no sense to me.
I tried to learn French but a trip to Paris very much dissuaded me from doing so Parisians are mean German, on the other hand, is not only way easier, but the Germans are much friendlier
We canadians are much friendlier. But French itself is a pain to learn even as a native french speaker. There are so many rules and tenses.
While I am young and don't have many "WTF?!" stories. One happened to me this weekend that I probably won't forget anytime soon. I was home all alone on Saturday, so I decided to order myself a pizza for lunch. Just so I can munch on it throughout the day if I get hungry again or for a midnight snack or whatever. I go on my app-based delivery service of choice, Door Dash. I select my restaurant, my food, and just like that it's being made and someone is on the way to pick it up from the restaurant. (If you're unfamiliar with how these apps work, the restaurant makes the food and then someone from the company that made the app goes and gets the food and delivers it to you) When the middle-aged man arrived, he climbed out of his car with my pizza, in it's box, in the insulated bag. sideways. like a book. I was gawking. He prompted me to retrieve my food from the bag, when I picked it up the pizza box was soaked through on the bottom with cheese, grease, toppings, etc. This MFer transported my pizza from restaurant to doorstep sideways. He said "have a nice day" and off on his merry way he went. I was absolutely stunned. Floored. gawking that someone thought this was okay. Offended. I felt as though I should have been able to call the police for what was done to me. Was this person from another planet? He MUST have had to deliver pizza before living in NJ! Has he never seen a pizza? Does he hand sandwich tins and other foam containers sideways too? This whole experience raised a lot of questions for me. Needless to say I received a full refund.
My problem is, there is no choice. I grew up on the other side of Saarland next to the german hostile foreign country surrounding us and went to school in another federal state. I had the choice between french or english at 5th grade but if you choose french you have to take english classes at 7th grade (if you choose english you could take other stuff like science etc.). I have a friend i am trying to get into Infinity who only learned french. He tried to apply for a career in the federal police and wasnt even alowed to the entrance exam cuase he didnt have english classes at school. Another way to keep young people in you federal state if they have no chance of better paid jobs. Cant see your profile, but i expected something like that. Well it was / is a political decission as a lot of educational stuff is in the hands of the federal states and can differ alot from federal state to federal state. I even have a Higher School Certificate which isnt acceptet in some federal states cause it didnt have a central exam (cant apply to Universitys in that federal states and other stuff) As always political decissions dont need to make sense, they just need to please the main audience.
As a matter of fact, rules in French are not that many more than in other languages. What is complicated is the high number of exception to those rules Don't forget that, we, french people (I mean real people of France, not native french speakers as people from Belgium or form Quebec ...) are genetically prevented from speaking properly any other language (ok, technically, US people can't speak English either ). I can't deny it (I'm living in Paris) but I have to correct it a bit. In Paris, most people you meet during the day are not Parisian, they live in the suburbs but work in Paris, and the public transport just makes them very stressed, thus mean, but those people don't have dumb monopole, there's also so some real Parisian pricks. Spoiler: Disclaimer If I live in Paris since 2000, I was raised in the suburb so technically I'm part of each category I describe above
Ah, Hancock Protocol: Parisians are the people who make everyone hate the French... People from anywhere else in France are pretty nice, and even they hate the Parisians!
Did the restaurant think he was meant to bring you a calzone or something? Once upon a time all pizza toppings were in fact sweet. This is why tradition is bullshit and the lessons of the past must always be ignored!
Pineapple and pepperoni is a gentleman's choice, add jalapeños if you're also a scholar. Salty, sweet, and spicy hits all the flavour centres!
hey man, there's bacon on there too somewhere. That combo of salty and sweet can't be described! Nope. he had my receipt. The only conclusion I can come to is that this man was an alien in human skin and had never seen a pizza before this moment. I would also NEVER hold a calzone like that.
It is what it is. I knew I would be receiving a full refund and about half a meal when he handed it to me, argument or no argument
