French Toast Town, France. Shocking news was released today by MIT Linguists Professor, Connie Servative in regards to a 15 year study she conducted to determine what percentage of Americans think the French talk funny. “Precisely 89% of Americans have a feeling deep in their gut that French people talk funny,” Professor Servative said earlier. “That is a much higher number than the 34% I expected to find 15 years ago when I first began this exhaustive study. As any decent American can tell you, French people speak in a strange, primitive language that is nowhere near as advanced as the superior form of American we Americans speak. However, I did not expect so many Americans I surveyed to say French people sounded funny when they talk. Americans usually have much better manners than to admit such thoughts out loud to people they don’t really know. Since so many of them did admit this to me, I can only conclude that, indeed, not only do French people speak a language much more primitive than American, it also sounds funny when they speak it. Hopefully the results of this survey will help the French move into the 21st Century and learn proper American like we Americans speak. Perhaps then so many Americans won’t think they sound funny when they talk.”
Laughing my ass off! As a French woman I can only agree that we do indeed “talk funny” – I’m trying real hard to learn proper american like you guys speak, but boy is it difficult! Especially when you guys are from the deep south 😀
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Or from Texas! Haha
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Hee Haw!!! Ah knows wut ya all mean!!!! Hee Haw!!!!
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I’m pretty sure 87% of Americans think Texans talk funny. I’m sure 99% of Texans believe America is a sub state of Texas.
I am pretty sure Bostonians talk funny.
I knew a French – Indian guy (he didn’t mind referring to himself as a coon ass) when I was a young lad working on the deck of a towboat. Couldn’t understand a thing he said, but he was tough S.O.B. At the time I thought he talked funny.
Thing is, and having been all over this country several times, accents are local. You drive 3-400 miles in any direction you will encounter a dominant accent in a region. That always sorta struck me as funny, in an odd way.
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Gardarn, boy, but Ah be thunkin’ you be ’bout right as a Repub’lick’in’ in a Evan’gelik’cal church wit dat der prock’lee’maashun! Hee Haw!!!
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Ummm, what? 😉
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Whut’s da madder, boy, doncha speak Amer’ee’kin? 😀
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I’ll tell ya it is a lot easier to read, than to actually hear coon ass lingo spoken. Especially with a very thick French accent, and spoken quickly.
To my ears it’s like hibbitty dibbitty dobbitty what? 🙂
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“I’m sure 99% of Texans believe America is a sub state of Texas.”
lmao
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🙂
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OH my Gods, so Americain, and so true…the rest of the world forgive us kindergartners. Us young ones need to learn better manners but our elders are busy shooting at each other…Ie. the Hatfields and Mccoys, dems and reps, white against black, south against north, coast against mid section of the country. Hard to learn our school lessons when our elders can’t decide which version of history and revisions to believe. It keeps changing, from grade to grade. Oh well, maybe we can get the world to give us a few candies and go to bed happy….Thanks. ( by the way I love this post for what it implies ) Hugs
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Great comment. Thanks for leaving it, my friend.
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your post was the great thing….you have a grand wit.. while I am just most times a nitwit. LOL 🙂 Hugs
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Reminds me of the song Hermie the elf/dentist sings in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: “Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit.” 🙂
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🙂
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Oooh those French with their baguettes and croissant!! … hang on, I love baguettes and croissant!! 😉
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Me too. Very delicious. 🙂
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Everyone talks funny, others more than others
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Incorrect. Everyone BUT Americans talk funny. God bless the U S A!!!! 😀
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You have not heard me talk
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If you’re not American, you talk funny. Why? Because….God! And because…..America!!!!!
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God! Allah! Thor! Who cares
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America cares!!! Because….America! And because……god!!!!
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You do realize it’s the denseness and vanity of Americans I’m mocking here?
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I know.
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You know because…America!!! And because…..God!!!!!
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How are you buddy? You had a good weekend?
I read of a guy who the kjv was good enough for jeebus, it is good enough for America
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Weekend was OK. Yeah, you get that here all the time here. Jeebus and America, arm and arm in illogical, nonsensical, bigoted thinking.
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Well, my Nairobi friend, I’ve heard you talk, and you definitely don’t talk funny. But then, again, I’m not your typical American.
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Thank Jeebus for that.
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$AMEN$
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Maybe the times we talk I have altered my voice. That reminds me we haven’t spoken for ages!
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Haha, true that, but you need to stop calling me when you’re in the Muslim parts of the Middle East. The NSA will be on me like white on rice. 😀
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The NSA has been on me like black on coffee recently. Might have something to do with my cannibalism, but I could be wrong.
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Well, Divine One, I suspect they stay away from you as you sport the real thing in your left hand rather than a stun gun.
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True. Noel would have to be very careful should he come here. Being from Africa, they’d shoot him first, then think about incarcerating him later should he live. Those NSA authorities can never be too careful, you know.
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Nor the fundies.
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Very true.
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Do you think they listen to our conversations? We can make it fun next time
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Hahhaha — yeah, the NSA supposedly monitors all calls that are made or received from outside of the U.S., and especially in hotspots like the Middle-East.
And…it’s always fun talking with you, but hey, I’m all for amping it up a bit so long as you have bail money for me. They’ll look for any excuse to incarcerate someone here. 😀
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We’d make it so interesting they would pay you
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We’ve all heard you talk! Aren’t you the guy who says we’ve just inherited 49 million euro? Oh, wait, that’s Nigerians- not Koala’s from Kenya 😀
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Hahah Pink-
Once I met a guy who told me he had so many millions he wanted to bring into the country! I thought they only did such stuff in emails.
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True true, seriously, true. You got that right!
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$Amen$
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Notwithstanding the fact that a good chunk of the English mongrel language stems from the French! Nice one
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The American language is supreme because, well, because it’s American, and god bless America!!!!
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Do Americans know that even the word ‘America’ was not born of English! Comes from 16th century explorer Amerigo Vespucci – not that Republicans or the religious lot would have that!
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That’s not the kind of thing they teach kids in American schools. It doesn’t involve Jesus and apple pie, and it reeks of liberal, un-American sentiment, even though it is the truth. Tolkien allegedly wrote Lord of the Rings Because he felt England lacked a true myth that was created purely by the English. He blamed this on the French invasion of 1066. He felt the culture and the language of the English was too mixed up with the French to be called its own. Thus, he wrote Lord of the Rings, a myth created, if you will, purely by an Englishman out of England. I think he did an amazing job. 🙂
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Robin Hood, King Arthur etc. all without foundation, all English that many believe ‘true’ stories from history…makes you wonder what JC did that was so great he got the son of God gig really!
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Indeed.
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Well that just dills my pickle.
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And French onions your soup?
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Mmmm, I love it when you talk naughty.
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Meow!
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