In French grammar, gender is given, you can't chop and change. My comic strip culture came from la belle Belgique, but a Neerlandstalic gemeente.
Reminds me on colleagues in NA region, who thought, if Simone can deal with Europeans, we can do it, too. Unfortunately, the first guy they got was a Dutch. Next morning, that customer was on my table. 😂
I believe the Dutch speakers are the second honest after the Berliners (I can’t speak for all Germans) followed by the Danish and Finnish.
I can’t remember the name of that German comedian living in the UK, but he is of course right to say, “The English are to polite to be honest. The Germans are to honest to be polite.”
I do hope @bédé you will be living long enough in the UK to learn from both worlds. 😊
HW. Really like him on panel shows. Seems like a nice bloke. A foreigner can know when he's been accepted when he's referred to as a bloke. Not sure what the female equivalent is, though.
Indeed, @BenCotto , it's Henning Wehn, and as usually, I missed the second o. “The English are too polite to be honest. The Germans are too honest to be polite.”
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I do hope @bédé you will be living long enough in the UK to learn from both worlds. 😊
I ♥ my garden.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
“The English are too polite to be honest. The Germans are too honest to be polite.”
I ♥ my garden.