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Humor of Two Types of FrenchHumor of Two Types of French spoken by Americans is from the book Me Talk Pretty One Day about struggling to learn French, by David Sedaris. Here is an excerpt from the chapter Make That A Double, in the book Me Talk Pretty One Day. ----- TWO TYPES OF FRENCH SPOKEN BY AMERICANS by humorist David Sedaris “There are, I have noticed, two basic types of French spoken by Americans vacationing in Paris: the Hard Kind and the Easy Kind. ----- “The Hard Kind involves the conjugation of wily verbs and the science of placing them alongside various other words in order to form such sentences as ‘I go him say good afternoon’ and ‘No, not to him I no go it him say now.’ ----- “The second, less complicated form of French amounts to screaming English at the top of your lungs, much the same way you’d shout at a deaf person or the dog you thought you could train to stay off your sofa. The speaker carries no pocket dictionary and never suffers the humiliation that inevitably comes with pointing to the menu and ordering the day of the week. With Easy French, eating out involves a simple ‘Bring Me A Steak’.” -----
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