Oh yes they do, but I went through many exceptions.
Things got easier if I showed some interest in improving: listened,
and tried again repeating the best I could. In fact, I was willing to
improve my French back then so I even smiled when a native speaking
French felt he had taught me something I felt valuable.
Maybe the fact that I am obviously a native Spanish-speaking person
helped. History is a burden, traumatic events are not forgotten, they
come back again and again and get worse each time they strike back.
Fernando
(.... who has recently finished reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
for the first time <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables>,
<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables>)
2010/2/13 Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The French do it too - my niece tells me I'm clumsy but perfectly
> understandable but many decline to understand on the grounds that I'm
> probably English or worse. Unless I'm buying something or I'm a friend
> of a friend.
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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