re: #211 lawhawk

I learned French from a teacher who came from Belgium. She said at the outset that if you got her accent down, the French would still look down on you - because they’d pick up the Belgian inflections, but that they’d still understand what you have to say.

At the end of the day, that’s really what it comes down to - can someone understand what you’re saying?

I picked up a Belgian infection once…