[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Amias Channer muttered drunkenly:
> I think thats a capital ( or maybe just large ) city thing , most people
> in big cities live on their own and away from their families and so
> forget to care that much about others .

If they do, they leave, in the end.

I think the UK is a perhaps more extreme example than France, hidden
only because London's sprawlier than Paris and has more diversity hiding
the basic can't-care-less-about-youdom. Plus, Estuary English isn't as
good for expressing supercilious dislike in as Parisian French, IMHO.

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