Aug. 5th, 2010 09:43 am
French hangover, day 4
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Went for a bagel right now and ran into a Mexican groundskeeper I'm chummy with, so we chatted cordially for as long as our paths coincided. Some days I'm rather curt because I'm simply not in the mood to speak Spanish, but today I thought I did rather well. Except for one thing: I kept substituting oui for sí. Or rather--using the pronunciation which predominates in Quebec--ouais. If you were to transcribe this according to Spanish orthographic conventions, it would come out "güey".
*dies of embarrassment*
*dies of embarrassment*