Re-salut @BitOutOfPractice, vous avez gagné!
J"ai enfin réussi à vous assassiner complètement, ce qui a évidemment été l'ambition de ma vie. Alors maintenant que vous avez dévoilé mon horreur à tout le monde, je vais m'éclipser avec ma queue métaphorique entre mes jambes!
But, just before I go, can you tell me please who the "many people" apart from me were, that you were referring to, when you said:
"Oh how I am laughing at the idea that Parisians will appreciate any school girl French. They won't. My French is pretty good. I always get sneered at in Paris."?
asI can't find anyone who mentioned "school (girl) French" apart from me, before your comment. So I think you had to be referring to me at that time?
I do wonder which one of us actually "...touched a raw nerve", maybe we should compromise, and say we both have?
Please bear with me while I quote myself from a previous reply to you:
"well the ones I have had Franglais conversations with told me that even though they might laugh at us for our awful pronunciation etc, they do appreciate it when English people at least try to speak some French. But maybe the ones I have talked with were all lying, and were not just the normally nice and friendly people I like spending time with."
Amongst other things - which you seem to have taken as a character assassination, when that was not my attention at all - I did say "By the way, sneering seems to be an Art Form particular to Parisians..." I was intending in that particular post to you, to respond with the same sort of sarcasm that you used towards me in your first response to me, starting "Oh how I am laughing..."
However, my 'winking face' at the end of my reply to you was supposed to let you know that I was being light-hearted in my tone. Maybe you took it as a passive aggressive emoji, but that was certainly not my attention!
Right, I am only going to read the rest of this thread now, and not comment on it anymore (as I think that both you and I have derailed it enough, and I am therefore sending my apologies to the OP) so I wish you well (not in the condescending manner that Gwyneth used yesterday), and am saying adeiu until another thread. However, I would love to know if you realise yet that I agree with almost everything you have said about the French People, and Parisians, except that I still believe that many Parisians do appreciate it when English people try to speak their language, and don't just assume that all French people speak English.
Au Revoir!