A Daily Thing

There have been many things to adapt to for me since moving from France to Australia, and this is the beginning of an attempt to explain.

Sometimes I query Christian as to why some French words seem to throw English-speaking people into fits of laughter.  Why same English-speaking people trying to speak French default to these words, almost as if they are so typically and quintessentially French, used by every French person you’ll ever meet.  I asked because it seemed stereotypical.

But see,  just then, I heard myself leaving a message on my mother’s answering machine, and what did I say?   ‘Zut alors’.  Point taken.