French

Yesterday’s corner time: 4 Minutes.

Whilst on holiday, Mum and Dad asked me to embrace the culture and the people, which to my credit, I duly tried. However, they were unimpressed when my interpretation involved embracing a local boy so tightly around his neck that he turned blue.

That said, there were some local girls that I went out of my way to embrace. In fact, I refused to let go of one and ended up being dragged across the local square on my stomach. Dad suggested that I needed to learn some finesse. And that from a man who dances around slapping his bottom.

I picked up the local lingo easily and was soon speaking French. However, I was disappointed to learn that fluency involved more than blurting out the word "French" to everyone.

It turns out that I've actually got a French Aunty, so she may be able to help. She's the girlfriend of my Uncle Simon. They’re an honorary Uncle and Aunty, which means that they're not real and are probably computer animations.

Like Grandma Gerry, I think the programmers were having a bad day whilst designing Uncle Simon, as he looks pretty funny. He's got less hair than Becca. I think the developers must have been drunk.

They did a pretty good job on Aunty Fabienne despite making her French and giving her a funny accent. This is probably just a bug and will be fixed in a future upgrade.

Matthew.

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