Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/No, no, no. And it's mildly offensive that you would suggest that. Just mildly, but still offensive.

No, no, no. You don't speak French better than I. You write it better. And even then, it's mostly because you either have an AZERTY keyboard, the small amount of patience required to switch your browser's spellcheck to correct what you can't type out (notice I didn't say mistakes- the spellcheck would be filling in for you keyboard's limitations), the patience to remap your QWERTY board's keys to allow you to insert accented letters with greater ease, or the monumental patience to go in and insert each and every non-standard character into your writings.

Please do not say that you speak French better than me. I have been speaking French my entire life, I was raised to speak French. Every member of my family is French (with the possible exception of my sister, who was born in the States), the entirety of my extended family lives in France, I read books in French, I watch movies in French, I read comic books in French, I listen to French music, and for my entire childhood I would go to France each summer to spend over two months with my grandparents where I had plenty of time to immerse myself in French culture. Do not belittle me by saying that you speak French better than me. It is just a little bit hurtful. I am sure you are very good with French, that you have spent much time learning it, and that your husband has provided you with a cross-cultural experience that you greatly (and rightfully!) value, but you have not lived it like I have and to have someone say that to me is like saying that I failed at being born, at growing up, and that I am a vapid fool unable to appreciate what his heritage brings him (although I'm something of an iconoclast and an Existentialist- don't take this as me defining myself as French)