• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I didn’t have streaming services when I grew up. I leaned from TV (in my country everything has subtitles, nothing is dubbed) and downloading movies at 20kb/s with Kazaa that didn’t have subtitles. I had English, French and German in school for 13 years. I don’t speak a word of French and German. The only French I know is “omelette du fromage” thanks to Dexter’s laboratory, while I have French family. But since they are too proudly French that they refuse to speak English, that I will put zero effort into learning any French.

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      23 hours ago

      Omelette du fromage is actually wrong, it does mean “cheese omelet” but it’s not how you say it. You say “omelette au fromage.” (Funny: the Wikipedia article has a chapter containing an analysis of the various viewpoints on what to drink alongside a cheese omelet.)

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        22 hours ago

        I actually know that, as it has been pointed out before, but in Dexter it’s “du” and I love to annoy chauvinistic Frenchies. So I’m sticking with that haha 😈