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Max WederOne of my favorite French tourist stories is when two of my unilingual Quebecois friends (that is, they spoke no English) travelled to France. When they spoke to the locals,the Parisiens continually would only reply to them in English, as they professed not to understand my friends. I don't know if this was merely a condescending response on behalf of the French in rejecting the perceived lower class French spoken by the Quebecois, or whether the French genuinely didn't comprehend the Quebecois French.
Oh well. I seem to recall that France was on the side of the 13 colonies in the Revolutionary War, so I guess they did something right once upon a time. Sadly, it looks like next year there won't be any French in the major leagues, unless the diplomats can make their way to RFK.
Max
