I wonder if our co-workers can read our intentions through our sweat patterns?
Must feel a bit odd to be listening to a presentation when you think the presenter is about to rape you.

As usual, I spent too long indoors to enjoy the weather. I plan to go paintballing this weekend, but the weather-forecast seems unfavourable.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:36, 1 reply, 17 years ago)

Especially as I was presenting about something rather boring - to me at least since I've heard it a million times -
in French.

Am not in the habit of raping people, though.
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:41, Reply)

In French eh?
Maybe they mistakenly thought 'viol' meant 'violin' instead of 'rape'. So all this time, they thought you were going to do something with a violin.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:44, Reply)

Yep. SNCF types came to see us about our department since everyone is curious.
Nearly lapsed into Izzard-French when I stumbled over my words at one point...
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:51, Reply)

I always find it easier to understand English speaking peoiple speaking French
Not sure if it's because they talk slower, or because they include toomany English-isms.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:58, Reply)

I'm really trying to get the Englishisms out of my French at the moment.
Fortunately I work with a lot of native speakers (as you'd expect where I work :) so it goes two ways, really.

The one mistake we won't correct is my colleague saying 'basically' with 'a' as in 'hat' rather than 'hate' because it's absolutely adorable and makes women go weak-kneed.
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:02, Reply)

I like having foregn-isms around. Adds to the diversity.
At my company, we've also got a tribe of Frenchies, a Mafia of Italians, some assorted Russian speakers (not sure how many of them really are Russian), plus goodness knows howmany other people from goodness knows where else.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:10, Reply)

We have 13 French speakers including me, two Dutch speakers,
two Arabic, one Spanish, one Italian, three German and one Portuguese.
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:14, Reply)