B-movie starlet, does her own stunts (foutu) wrote in linguaphiles,
B-movie starlet, does her own stunts
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in english the vegetable under the cut can be lettuce or salad. in french it's salade. if it's salade or something close to that in a language you speak, can you let me know? also: mustard, mayonnaise, onions/moutarde, mayonnaise, oignons.

also, in english, do you call it salad? where are you from?



the purpose of this: if i hear someone struggling a lot in english at work i'll listen carefully to see if they're francophone... and i think we're getting a lot of spanish-speakers. i also think a good deal of them may be from quebec. it's the #3 language there, but has very little presence here. they know the drill at my restaurant but speak very little english. that's not so out of the ordinary. it's when they say "salade" and "may-nezz", or when their school-aged kids speak less english than they do, that pings my quebec tourist radar. hmmm.

eta: thanks guys! i think my suspicious were correct.
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