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The French have the thing where there is zero effort at accent, even among French who are absolutely fluent in grammatically perfect English. To be fair, there is a certain kind of Englishman who is exactly the same in French.
You just made me realize that I have literally never heard a French person (or other native Romance language speaker, for that matter. The germanics' native pronunciation gives them a leg up and the Asians actually try) even attempt to pronounce my simple, white bread American name correctly, despite them presumably hearing it constantly in American media their whole lives. Which makes me wonder why I, as an American, bother putting so much effort into shit like that. Nobody else seems to be extending the courtesy back to us except for the Asians, who ironically probably have the hardest time actually making the appropriate mouth sounds.
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