To think shes going to have to continue the lie her entire life now?

[LustfulInMiltonKeynes]

So a friend of mine pretended to be a french on a night out for laughs (i wasnt there), shes actually fluent in french because she spent a few years there as a kid, but shes not french at all.

So she actually ended up getting into this guy and them swapping numbers. She really likes him but apparently there was never really a right time to stop it and be like "ok look, heres my normal voice, and im from croydon and my name isnt celine". So she ends up on a second date, still doing to accent!

Obviously now its ridiculous and the worst part is she genuinely really likes the guy - he seems to really likr her too HOWEVER he also seems to really like the french aspect so...
Aibu
To think shes going to have to continue the french lie her entire life now?

Obviously what she should do, if she really likes him, is come clean and see how the cards fall.

This is comedy gold for you and her other friends, OP. You'll be able to bring this up for decades.

But a lifetime of French accent, pretending she's orphaned, and naming her children Xavier and Odette is perfectly viable!

Is she a fan of We Bare Bears?

My dh once met a girl on a night out at a club (years before we met, obviously!) and they chatted like as much as you might in a loud, crowded club (like how you sort of nod and pretend you’re following what someone is saying but really can’t hear them at all) and exchanged numbers. He texted her and they arranged to go on a date, but when he turned up, it turned out she really only spoke Polish and didn’t speak much English at all and they couldn’t understand each other at all. Needless to say, that didn’t go anywhere (thankfully for me). If she comes clean, hopefully he’ll appreciate the humour of it all and be impressed with her language skills if nothing else.

She could fess up but promise to play Celine in the bedroom.

Years ago when I was young and silly I pretended to be an airline pilot to some guys I met in a bar. They were hanging off my every word; it was brilliant.

Luckily I knew quite a bit about planes and the aviation industry so I was able to blag it for quite some time.

I really don't understand why anyone would pretend to be anything they're not - how odd ... I suppose it's similar to people who post these selfies all over social media that look nothing at all like them after filters etc have been added. Where did honesty go?

I think she should just let it fizzle out with him. The accent was probably the big draw for him anyway.

phase it out like Ross in friends

DS found a meme that said if you want to find the English person in any room sing "Oh-eight-hundred-double-oh" and wait.

I wonder if there's a French equivalent?

She should just tell him. It's probably good that she gave a fake name as well.

If he keeps seeing her afterwards he doesn't have to explain that she lied. When his friends ask if he's still seeing the French woman he can say "Celine? No, but I've met X now anyway" and nobody needs to know what a weirdo she's been

Ha ha, this is hilarious. I remember DH and I when we were first dating: him telling me that his real name was “Aubrey” and that he was Jewish (I knew he wasn’t; I’d seen his cock on the first “date” and he is uncircumcised) and other stuff. I was the school long jump champion and could speak fluent Polish.

Sixth form a school based extra curriculum event - teacher offers lift home but there a strange undercurrent like I'm not in on some joke and I'm first dropped of which doesn’t make any sense.

As for directions I pointed right and said left - she went left - ( later diagnose dyslexic it's not an uncommon associated trait confusion between right and left).

Because I was already feeling laughed at I just wanted out rather than explain - so got out but they insisted on waiting till I went in - which I can't do as I'm down the wrong road . I ended up going into someone back gate waiting till they drove off and getting home worried sick someone would come out and say oi..

Couple of nights later watching Victor Meldrew on TV doing the same .

Never done a fake accent though.

This is kinda funny, I hope they survive as it'd make a great story for the grandkids one day! But yeah... she's gonna have to come clean eventually and the sooner she does it, the easier it'll be. Maybe get him drunk first? And then explain how you've kept the accent up for so long because you like him ( and then maybe something like...but actually Celine is the foxy alter ego reserved for the bedroom...?!! I dont know. Make something up to joke about, then you dont have to let it go completely flat lol)

Was in a kebab shop in sheffield at the tail end of a long night out with my friend and her sister who are both from county tyrone and have very strong culchie accents, this guy comes up to my friend’s sister and is like oh wow your accent omg are you foreign? She looked him dead in the eye and in her totally normal accent said ‘aye sure we’re from france so we are’ Just then our chip order came up, she cheerily bid him farewell, again in her normal accent with ‘well we’re away to eat these, we’re fierce hungry, we’ve had a long journey from france see’ leaving him looking utterly confused

If yr gonna pretend to be french that is the way to do it.

My husband always laughs when we think of when we first met, we are out having fun (prob 19) and I said I was ‘Charlotte’ and 23.... (not sure why I pretended to be older)!!! But I came clean the next day!

When we were about 12 a friend and I went out for the day and pretended to be Japanese for the whole day. We were both white British kids who couldn't speak Japanese...

Has she said vous le vous couchez avec moi ce soir yet?

I had an ex whose whole online dating profile schtick was that he was Scottish. He could not do the accent. He had a whole story about that. He had a lot of whole stories about a whole lot of things. Glad I'm shot of him!

Oh dear. I just wouldn't contact him again, block him on everything

Yep, this would be my solution.

However if she really likes him she could come clean. And if he really likes her and isn't just an accent weirdo, it will be a funny story to tell people.

My first boyfriend thought I had a completely different name for weeks and weeks. Then we saw a mutual friend while on a date. Rumbled.

A boyfriend told me this story years ago but the other way around (French guy pretending to be English).

I've only just realised that it's an urban legend that he was spinning me.

Is it really that childish?

Many speak French and Italian where I grew up so these two were out for me. But I used to be really close friends with a Polish girl and we sometimes "swapped" languages, e.g.

It was fun :)

(Maybe a bit childish but some of these comments are a bit harsh. Alcohol, feeling a bit silly => voilà. )

Aghahahahah OP I did the Aussie thing as well!! 'The bush' hahahahahahaha

When I was 17 I told a guy on a night out I was a vet ffs.

When I was younger I told a guy on a night out I was an actress on tv, when he asked what I’d been in I told him I was in the costume of Jake from the Tweenies

A bit melodramatic, it is only the second date so highly unlikely she will be lying 'forever'. However, it's definitely best she comes clean sooner rather than later on the off chance!!