Are the French polite? (With Lina and Dingo Mike)
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We are joined by Lina, the illustrator behind Instagram's @parisianpostcards, to discuss French politeness, the whole tu and vous thing, and whether or not French people are rude.
You might recognize Lina's work from our logo, by the way.
Here is the audio from the chat.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, I'm Oliver, I'm James and I'm Lena. |
| 0:04.4 | Hang on. A third co-host. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a guest slash co-host this week, Lena. |
| 0:10.2 | A mystery guest. |
| 0:11.2 | A mystery guest to help us tackle a topic close to many people's minds and hearts. |
| 0:16.8 | French politeness and the dreaded to and vu. |
| 0:20.1 | What have you done, Oliver? |
| 0:20.9 | You found the most polite person you could find. |
| 0:23.4 | I brought her on the show. |
| 0:24.9 | Lena, Lina's got plenty to say on this topic, and I'll get into why we chose her in a minute. |
| 0:29.9 | But first, I think we need a jingle. |
| 0:31.6 | So, yeah, we're talking about politeness today and we've got at parisian postcards instagram runner |
| 0:42.5 | lena who uh is our graphic designer for the show yes it's me you did yeah you did the what do you call |
| 0:51.0 | the mastermind the logo you did the logo yes i did so uh The mastermind. The logo. You did the logo. |
| 0:55.4 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:57.9 | So, uh, you're here to co-host the show. |
| 1:01.8 | That's the Euro star just arriving from London. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, that's exactly. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm sure everyone heard that. I thought it was a fire alarm. |
| 1:05.6 | I thought it was in my hand. |
| 1:08.6 | No, we're right near the Gaudinor train station so i think that was just the uh i tried to open |
| 1:12.9 | the window but yeah i like it so it's good a little bit of uh obiance you might say that that |
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