Dutch-like language [OT]

When I went to live in Birmingham (OK), I coud not understand the dialect at all. It was exactly one week after I arrived that I oveheard a conversation in a bus and realised I had understood some of it.

When I returned home after 3 months, everyone said I had picked up the Birmingham accent.

I think I would have recognised Afikaans.

I've been told that Parisians can't communicate with Cajuns.

But the Cajun language is rare now. In WWII, draftees had to be sent to English language schools.

The food is good, but very hot. My daddy-in-law used to grow the cayenne peppers for Tobasco sauce. People wear gloves to pick them.

Ha! Parisians are notorious for refusing to understand anyone who doesn't talk just like them!

Jeroen Belleman

I noticed that. In the little towns scattered around France, people were friendly and smiled and tried talking in mixed franglais, whatever we could manage. The food was better too.

Paris is grim and grand and grey, kinda like New York City.