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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had a friend who worked at a wine shop. He was also 1/4 french, though with no accent at all.

Some other friends went in to see him at work. They found it hilarious that he had this excessive french accent. It turned out he did it as a joke 6 months before, and got a good reaction from customers. His subconscious apparently ran with this, without his notice. The more he racked it up, the better the customers respected his opinions on wine. He was, however, completely unaware he was doing it!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] wieson@feddit.org -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No accent doesn't exist. Still a fun story :)

[–] Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

I just tought it meant no french accent.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

If you want to get extremely pedantic, "Queens English" was defined as the reference. The rich toffs of the British empire got annoyed at their servants having various accents, and either being hard to understand, or mishearing them.

In this case however, it was meant as a local accent, so none noticeable.