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Old 02-20-2007, 06:14 PM   #282
Kingswood
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Melbourne, Vic
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Originally Posted by Nunya View Post
Do you ever mispronounce words to purposely irritate your foreign friends? I do. One of my French friends hates it when Americans pronounce French words incorrectly. One day we were having a party and she was making crepes. I made sure to have a reason to say croissant, but I pronounced it "croy-SANT" just to see what she would do. She screamed,"CWASOOOO!!!" and then threw a crepe at me. Then I said, "Hey! Quit throwing creaps at me!" She did refrain from throwing the skillet at me.
Ask her how she pronounces the words "western" and "week-end" when speaking French, and if she pronounces them as "vestern" or "veek-end", you can throw unpronounceable things at her.
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