My friend thinks she's French

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I have this friend, i've known her on and off for years, one of those let's do lunch once a year types.

Anyway, we decided that we'd do lunch yesterday as both our calendars aligned. She turned up and i shit you not, speaking with some mental half French half English accent. I just sort of went with it as it was so bizarre I had no idea what the hell to say to it. She even made reference to drinking wine with lunch ''like they do at home, you know in Paris'' ... it was the oddest thing.

Anyway, after the most bizarre lunch of my life, I called a mutual friend and apparently this has gone on for the past 8 months - she pretends to be French. She has even at one point shaved her eyebrows off and drawn them back in like Edith Piaf, she wears bateau neckline striped tops and cycles around town with baguettes in her basket.

At least she's got over her ''I'm Claire from Steps phase though'' - would you go NC? this is mental.

This is either a shite windup, or everyone on here is laughing at someone who is quite obviously very seriously mentally ill...

Dear@Maireas all my monstrosities are all cotton or viscose you miserable so and so.

I had a friend at uni who watched a lot of neighbours and spoke with an Australian accent, she was from Cardiff

If not, it could be arranged!!

Brilliant 😁I guess this could be determined by observing her response to La Marseillaise.

I mean, unless the OP's serious, in which case, the tone of the thread is in really poor taste. Somehow I doubt that though...

she cant have a brain tumour if this has gone on for so long now

just ask her whats with your accent are you off to france

ohhh this is a Thing. My loopy flat mate at university was desperately into The La’s (scouse band) and decided to affect a mostly shit scouse accent. She did it off and on for years. She was from Orpington I think. We caught up about a decade ago and she was far more into some Jamaican dub scene so the accent was distinctly JaFake-an. With Orpington overlay. She’s short and ginger and tremendously good value.

I'll repeat what I said earlier. This is clearly a made up post for someone desperately seeking attention. If it is true (it isn't), then laughing at someone obviously unhinged is foul.

She's not been recruited by an intelligence service by any chance and this is part I bet cover ?

*part of her cover

I raise you. Apparently he was perfectly fine went out of uniform (which his wife made for him).

Le Manchot

Le Manchot et Jeremy

Glad we are not all the same. 🐧

😂😂
You don't own a Breton top?

My dd class mate (entirely nordic blonde class btw) did this but with Chinese. Never been to China in her life. Very confusing.

@Maireas i feel attacked 🙈

😂- why not just identity as someone really stylish? That's what I do. 😉

There's multiple "diagnoses" that can manifest like this - sadly they usually all have their original roots with repeated and chronic childhood maltreatment.

I have zero idea if this post is spoof, or if it's real, but for those who aren't aware it's probably worth knowing so you don't all go storming in to take the piss out of someone who has potentially survived horrific maltreatment in their childhood.

I worked with a young guy who talked with American accent but never been to US, was from west wales. I did ask him why he spoke in American accent and he explained that he watched only American films, TV... it has a big influence on him! Very odd..

I grew up in a very multicultural area and one of the things we found hilarious was boys we went to school with and who had the local accent suddenly started speaking in a Jamaican patois at about 14 or 15. It was very bizarre.

This is incredibly common. I ran a pub on the outskirts of a housing estate in a Midlands city 15 or so years back where nearly all the white youths spoke as if they had just landed from Montego Bay 😆. There is a little boy in my class at work who's parents are both born and bred locals. He speaks with a broad Polish accent most of the time 😆. I'm assuming the friend is just having a bit of fun with it rather than seriously mentally unwell but either way definitely not NC. If the former she sounds a hoot and the latter will need support.

I grew up in a very multicultural area and one of the things we found hilarious was boys we went to school with and who had the local accent suddenly started speaking in a Jamaican patois at about 14 or 15. It was very bizarre.

When I was in my early 20s and working with a lot of young white working class men this regularly came up and my snobby older male boss would always ‘subtly’ pull them up on it by asking ‘where you born here? Oh you were? Because your accent is so different’ and then they would usually quickly drop it.

This is really common amongst teens. Dd uses some of these phrases.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4122155-Teen-Speak-Translation-Thread-2021?page=1

Your friend sounds bizarre but please, please can I identify as a nationality that still enjoys membership of the EU!

How about Hungarian?

Oh get the stick out of your arse. Of course it's made up, just go with it! You might actually enjoy yourself!

I hand in heart genuinely know someone who is from Bolton but speaks with a South African accent.

I really feel like I've read this exact thread before but I love it all the same 😆